Microtome

 

 

Or

humour and contrast of three sets of hands
in colour at the long table
in prayer and in hair

and forgotten

 

 

Anglify

distance noted and a shared
boredom and a peace and a kindness
scarce noted

 

 

Hail

window open to soft grain
thrown

 

 

This

not usual, not
on balance, not

hovering

 

 

Adze

seems right for shoulders, tumorous
excrescences off the bone, driven
back by half-honed musculature

one day in four

 

 

Hair

reddish, artificial and
the better for it
does not stream, is

controlled

 

 

White

painful
in
décolletage

dipping
to
rising

black

 

 

Story

the film show of
the horror show
behind ice
speaks of a repeat

 

 

Blue

is
only for
sometimes,
mary

 

 

Leg

lengthening
as it does not, down
from thickness

 

 

Thurh Crafte

hope in the constancy
of rebuttal which is not
in the external subject

but set up
with care
it does come

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First published in Oasis magazine, no.75, November 1995

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