tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9355932856205870322024-03-13T08:47:26.045+00:00A Fiery Flying Rollthe last WARNING PIECE at the dreadfull day of THE MARVELLOUSPaul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-79404819855464169572016-04-04T20:51:00.002+01:002016-04-04T20:51:58.532+01:00The Jacquestown Settlement vanishes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leaving only the unexplained message</div>
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<a href="http://poundhammers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-undies-covered-country.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Gone to Croatan'</span></span></a></div>
Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-17270103023976860442016-01-05T22:55:00.003+00:002016-01-05T22:55:57.504+00:00Goodwin
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In your arms</div>
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I remember</div>
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The sea in your arms</div>
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Starfish sea hearts</div>
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At your hips</div>
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Falling cliffs in your thighs</div>
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Moon tide waves</div>
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Wrecks washed</div>
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By silver neap sands drifting</div>
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Sea wash anchor drag</div>
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Across our coral fingers</div>
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Locked and scraping</div>
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Where they touch</div>
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Cargo chests wrenched open</div>
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And reefs of bones</div>
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Polyp tentacles stretched</div>
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Into your arms</div>
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From my splintered hull</div>
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In your arms</div>
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At the wake</div>
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Of our sailings</div>
Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-59188726117924354972015-08-25T17:45:00.000+01:002015-08-25T17:45:06.558+01:00The Buttoned Wings of the Asymmetrical Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Asymmetrical Man is a burst barrel. He plays piano keys of splintered laths.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u>Death as a Word</u></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span>Robert Desnos has often tried
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span> – Louis Aragon</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For I will sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With my eyes openblind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To the swirling columns of dust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My mouth will not open</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To the song’s breath moan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The electric ringing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That calls across the carpet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For I will sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Between each heartbeat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Soft under the nails</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A step louder than my step</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the soft dirt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Into my ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Drip the murmured cries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of animals under the myrtle leaves</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Snorting their desires</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The sky is bleached into sand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Behind my eyes of ash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And the creeping vines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Are dry against my tongue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am the weight of a sleeping thought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I speak the silent words of a dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And they catch in the twisted locks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And fences of my garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As they whistle away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On a flight of powdered air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I fade into one lost word</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The shadow of a sun long set</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Burned into my closing eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That is always open</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The wires ring with bells</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Behind the dark eyes of my dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And the mouth still open</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Awaiting a word</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All I remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Catches like wool tufts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the barbs that hold us back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I will sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Knitted from the burrs of our past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While caravans cross the horizon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of my hollow eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I will see their journeys</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And I will be known</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By the elephant train</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I will be known</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By the wide arms of my open-eyed sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That will not end</span></span></div>
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</span>Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-62070274098185023382015-05-14T17:25:00.000+01:002015-05-14T17:25:04.184+01:00The Dissected Man Transforms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-74319969946897550672015-04-17T11:45:00.000+01:002015-04-17T11:45:31.746+01:00The Self-Consuming Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">The lights of the horizon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Leaving behind books</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">That explode with their own outrage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">They burn from within</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Text blisters into flame</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before the covers even move.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A chiffon swish</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A rustle of curtains</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Across the leather of the reading rooms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A figure slipped away</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moments before the shelves erupted,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The scabrous and destructive catalogue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is no rescue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This is transfiguration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (for DH-M)</span></div>
<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-51771843113192684922015-04-14T20:29:00.000+01:002015-04-14T20:29:25.942+01:00With the spring came a premonitory bellow calling the crows to the carrion-to-be<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-51470765195037472602014-08-09T19:11:00.002+01:002014-08-09T19:11:36.995+01:00The Prosthetic Alphabet<span style="font-size: large;">A<span style="font-size: small;"> is a metal spider claw in the brickwork</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">B<span style="font-size: small;"> is full with sperm</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">C<span style="font-size: small;"> sweeps nestlings from the ground</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span> is a well without a bucket</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">E</span> is a rooftop of turrets clogged with birds and frogs</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span> is a broken wall in a bomb crater</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span> holds kittens underwater</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">H</span> pins legs to a table while fixing arms to the light fittings</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span> is a crowbar</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">J</span> dredges oysters</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">K</span> is a monkey in a burning tree</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">L</span> will catch all the falling</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span> is a glasshouse frame, its windows broken by escaping plants</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">N</span> is an iron lightning bolt</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">O</span> is an astrolabe</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">P</span> holds her breasts as she floats in the water</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Q</span> is an eye floating up from the depths</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">R</span> is caught in the swirling strands of reeds with the eels</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">S</span> winds wool in the hair</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span> is a piton hammered into a rockface</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">U</span> will hang above the door to mark where the horse kicked</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">V</span> splits water with a bank of sand</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span> is a hedge of hurdles</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">X </span>holds itself open to all suggestions</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span> is a funnel that brings all roads together</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Z</span> is a tapeworm coiled into a cough </span></span> </span></span> </span></span>Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-55022062317278162202014-06-15T16:29:00.004+01:002014-06-15T16:29:52.027+01:00King's Quoit
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the railway sand rise spikes</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Of purple darts and trumpets firing heart-ceasing smoke</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In trembling clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One green eye,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rattle of legs beneath broomhead wings</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A low growl from the stones</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And above it a whistle through the teeth of an animal</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The howling overture to</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Bait Diggers of 1933</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With scorched fingers and velvet wood thighs</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The clambering horses rise in dry and powdery lusts</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the shore</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The predatory bonecrawling forms</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Prise their way out of the burrows</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In search of sleeping flesh</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The lip skin bulbs of sparkling trowel heads</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shimmer to the lover’s touch</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The washed skin ripples with swollen deep sea memories</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The sunken toeprints of a man dropped into soft sand</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On a beach of green moustaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are burnt hooves washed up in the foam</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While the fetish sticks are black with use</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And each round stone is a carved Ogham map</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Later, in the time of hollow mountains</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When minutes shine gold against a sky with its eyes shut,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fairy horns sound again</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Reveille for the naked monks</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A recall to the 8 o’clock rock they cannot pass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My heart is the unknown hero lying under the cromlech</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It slips away, down through the sand,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With each gulping peristaltic beat</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My hair falls in pigeon wings behind my head</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fingers bristling with the dry spears</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hurled from the clifftops</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Diving through fields surrounded by the mystery smoke</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The reptile flowers coil around me</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the holes through walls and bushes</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Where whistling echoes on the glowing face</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And in numerous pairs we see</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The murk ascending </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-19945842092116957772014-05-26T19:10:00.000+01:002014-05-26T19:10:01.008+01:00I wear my dreams on my face<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the grey dark of late winter, among the stones, ice
tigers prowl the empty slates. Snowy gusts overturn marzipan sails, and we slide
from the Turkish decks of scandal.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The blue-grey shadows fall on us from the hillside but she
burns black, a dark lantern against the speckled snow rage. The cold swirls in
smothering layers that swallow the light, and she burns blacker and blacker,
this dark beacon, this summoning. Blinded moths hurtle extinguished into the
dark star black hole.</div>
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At her centre shimmers a flame that burns without light. The
lantern shutters flash and clatter to reveal a matchhead dark glow swaying
upwards to its own dance. Untouched by snow or wind, untouchable, each leaping
gesture throws wisps of smoke to wreathe and choke the night around us.</div>
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This is the end of misrule. Her order is the splendour of a
self-sustaining chaos. No no, just because she has worn Nigerian costume does
not mean that she is Nigerian herself.</div>
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She is the child of the candle.</div>
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I follow her flame as it burns out of the cellar, out of the
room of mirrors, out of the walled corridor, out of the velvet hall, out of the
puppet theatre, out of the bar with bare floorboards. Through the dancing
flickers of her black combustion roam and prowl a dog, a tiger, a wolf, with
human eyes behind their snarling foaming. She burns steel-grey with animal hair
and black snow. She fears her candlehead will consume her, but it calls all
those who also change themselves into animals to her side. Our howling will
echo through the frozen rivers.</div>
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Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-89085972042371952922014-05-01T21:43:00.000+01:002014-05-01T21:43:15.289+01:00White bones of an evolutionary future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-54548417699535995912014-04-08T11:31:00.000+01:002014-04-08T11:31:08.679+01:00Eerie Brothels
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Do not step out of this area</div>
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It is the place where places do not exist</div>
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This no-land where languages return</div>
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While the hares race</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">On the eel road</span></i></div>
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Moose hands</div>
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The cynic work of mussels</div>
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Brittle spiders climb clinging from the wall</div>
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The door throws its hands up in angry alarm</div>
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This is the axe of the new generation</div>
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A world where people eat themselves</div>
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From compulsive necessity</div>
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White banner roads into the woods</div>
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Where they stop dead</div>
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A deer’s foot cupholder</div>
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Split feet of gold</div>
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Like broken-handed roots</div>
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Stump eyes and steel-grey fields</div>
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The bristling beasts lie huddled and powdered</div>
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Hard-water pawprints in the fields</div>
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Like an animal walking upside down</div>
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Its footprints rising from the soil up into the snow</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">On the pea road</span></i></div>
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Black sperm jackdaws are spilled out</div>
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Across skies blue above cells</div>
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Whale-tail axe-heads</div>
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And spiral fingers curling into danced moustaches</div>
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Pointing home with swollen bulb finger joints</div>
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As eyeball coracles with white skiff sails</div>
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Drift across a pastry-brown sea</div>
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There is the brick omphalos</div>
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A mirror made of plaster and stone</div>
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A cupper’s tool</div>
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Napoleon reaches his stone bridge border</div>
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Everybody remembers but he can go no further</div>
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This mountain lies like a jewelled dog</div>
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White-stained water,</div>
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A lying leopard covered with moss</div>
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She will leap, she will leap, in the trees</div>
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From the trees</div>
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Skin x-rays on the surface of the moon</div>
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The unfinished city</div>
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The experiences of my departures</div>
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White-faced, a paper doll</div>
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Blown on dusty paths</div>
Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-13531026593427594862014-04-04T23:00:00.000+01:002014-04-04T23:00:08.269+01:00There are cries one sometimes hears in the silence of starless nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A portrait of the Comte de Lautréamont, done for his birthday by PC and <a href="http://gorgoninfurs.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Merl Fluin</a></div>
Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-58029885470824511252014-02-17T19:58:00.000+00:002014-02-17T19:58:15.717+00:00Red Mercury separates into its component parts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-62333351273224670362014-02-13T14:58:00.002+00:002014-02-13T14:58:23.854+00:00Town and Country
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Playing the euphorium</div>
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Black wire tears from dissolution</div>
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Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-76224685762347419912014-01-25T23:12:00.000+00:002014-01-25T23:12:17.867+00:00The Childhood of Max Schreck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-89273514483193160992013-12-18T22:23:00.001+00:002013-12-18T22:23:50.718+00:00They hatched from their cocoons in accordance with the turn of the cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Paul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-8761113755830729922013-10-28T13:54:00.002+00:002013-10-28T13:54:50.774+00:00Potato bridgeA molten eye of sand<br />
slides into the water<br />
Behind cataracts of geese<br />
The green canal wrapped<br />
in a wire crownPaul Cowdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03450745221810240378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935593285620587032.post-58006258093197504842013-09-29T18:17:00.000+01:002013-09-29T18:17:58.817+01:00Le Maître d'Effroi, Senate House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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