AnnMarie Eldon
trying to figure the transfinite asymptote
there is no cure to be found inside the phrase
how a thing can be finite as to its entitative
being and finite under another relation nor
in increasing the mgs. by half
again
though family psychoses by degrees evident
meanesses thronged within open doors (or
not); serious soap on TV, crooks
bombs, poverty disguised as un-
watchable commerciality, grief
summarised into
a mere
clip
tested: suddenly this wind turns to NNE, leaves
curl, horse chestnuts preform, the giant euphorbia
cracks its unsyncopated whipseedlashes
a quite terrible need for grace
viator or comprehensor are not channel options
see those men trying to gather body parts?
stagger
too many differing intentions - walk down
any street - aerials mop up a World View
next year's biennials already at a plunder and under
review whatever language suffices flounders
becomes hazardous litter or at best
a sentimental overview
what happens at the last before
link disabled for safety and protection
pictures promising a weekend of lurid
although not spelt out, headlines say
differently. Sell. In order to they must
shout and there's hard(ly) about
in the air and upon the ground a
scrunchingness certainty where before
soft a boundaryless has gone mess
what's come about is a hand suddenly
removed a having to do it myself at my
last minute which was alright but now
isn't a piece removed a vital piece once
again at the very last and minute wouldn't
suffice so that's all very well to say that in
New England in the first week of September
it does this but we're not ("it was The Times
and it was that he withdrew I remember
there was talk of impeachment in Britain too...") there
yet too much bare flesh in the not-tabloid press cold
wet nasturtiums utterly pocked mildew upon
the flags where no one is walking no talking
taking place a terrifying ebb and flow blaming
a staining where a dead rose withered and fell
and this season rounded by polite politicals
nothing radical; dead, yes dead and no one
no one admitting how empty dark are hours
once evening
don't take the O'Donohue
no going back from the corpses
no pretty hues for dead blue filth
it looking like part of Rembrandt's Anatomy lesson
but starker somehow and on a trolley
and at tea time on the 6 o'clock, headless
are there to be crimes committed in every
home if the statistics are to be kept up with
that has to be the only way surely? Utterly
a safe bet numbers 50,900,000 blogs
on the web and with all this talk
it's all a foregone, surely?
who'll pray then?
should have rung the local newspaper
was headline news
it has been so dry and the snake
would have come for the water but would have been
frightened by the vibrations of all those children
how like the viper
what it bequeathed
alone and afraid the "spiritual sponsor"
parading his arrogance elsewhere who came eventually
from his walled retreat to 'borrow' books. Favourites. Who'll
do his own workshop, mock the weak(er)/write a programme
it's so fast and apparently
is not felt when it bites
a gaping neck where a person was
broiled blubber where pride in a clean white shirt
come, hiss: you'll not lessen the world's dirt
by word (mouth venom missile or poetry)