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‘Deviously devoid of all language’: Five poems on the absurdity of suffering and the cosmic machine
Evening
Evening,
a marble plateau,
sliced breath of the day
Red pomegranate seeds splutter,
turning the mouth’s estranged sky
into a velvet sienna
Stillness—
lack of movement
or lack of thought?
An elongation of emotion
a requiem for the living
The air, it seems,
is suffused with a flat, ochre light,
static around the bark of all trees
A consolation,
a lullaby,
a long, long pause
everything in the goddamn world
bending down
to stare at its very own miracle
Twilight’s veil flutters,
an insect strapped to the day’s chest
She moves,
Slowly,
Carefully—
there are no mistakes made here
the day falls in precise moments,
just as it began
A cold shudder
A celestial beast
salivates over life’s porous face
And the horizon grins
Evening,
the sly tongue of light
Lilith
Lilith,
sepulcher of stunted air
A thin laugh—
the drooping Venus-tongues
ecstatic in the wedges of space
My garden blistered with their warm breath,
their constant heaving
Their inaudible, glaring presence
thousands of purple baby-fists
Hanging, just
hanging
The most precious of sights
yet appalling,
very appalling
Lilith,
your large, viscous being
above these pockets of breasts
You stand
with your tongue deep in my mouth,
a fine straw of divine ache
You stand—still,
deviously devoid of all language,
You stand,
seeking neither forgiveness
nor awaiting any,
You stand outside,
outside breath, sense, being,
You stand,
outside of all human judgement—
plain vicious,
the glorious face of luscious lunacy
Abduction
White salt out there,
your whitewashed twigs scowl—
motions unfamiliar
The night is growing thick;
the finger is aflame, a matchstick
It has sworn to shimmer;
the teeth abandon the jaw
and float into the sea,
A jawbone into the sea’s eternity
a poet stood before the ocean
And never returned,
return he did not
And in my cupped eyelid,
a quarter of the moon, the man’s weakening
steps, a half knee dipped in…
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