the armchair dissident

Monday, January 02, 2017

Rescued poem #6 - Too many poems

An oldish journal entry which his been reduced down to it's most basic point

Too many poems

the quantitative easing
of language

Sunday, January 01, 2017

Rescued poem #5 the instant collapses as the coasts dissolve

not a rescue so much as a remix, I like the orginal fine, but was curious to see what would happen if I pared it down. The end result is very much itself

the instant collapses as the coasts dissolve

memories of borders
been doing my bit for the weather
shouting down clouds
moment becomes
event I’ve been
trying to remember

old songs
throat above the present

I was in two parts of the country at the same time yesterday
the news singing

lines
there when you need
the swell built you could
see no further than where
you’d been drilled into place though
of course not the

choate fixity
a place
you’ve abandoned
fending off history
seas roar in so
words spill back