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An ABC of
Reading
attest / at rest / at rust
bending
to the earth
creamy lilt
dreaming the book, he
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle
flux says
attrition
ghosts stutter in the flicked-through pages
how can you say that?
I just did
just /
jest / jet
'knowledge of the springs'
loon
moon
noon
outstanding valve
pfolds &
relocations
quietude or quintessence?
rains pelt / rain’s pelt / rain spelt
spoke why don’t
you spoke
toneless odes, sealed lips
ultra-
violet hour
'we came out then, & once again could
see the stars'
xylophones or xenon?
yes, neither
zero laminate
Dangerous Perhapses
maisonettes glass exactly the green key
the chomping teeth where aerials guzzle
tucked inside the
fire bulbed furnace
ditto fault-line of many neckties
bluff as old gestures cancer the bulging
branches fuming
glossy torrents smattering
the unnameable dead looped famous flourished
planetary shadows make a sycamore mute
flicker
of sky mobile of capitalist teeth
crystal frothing & blowing flicker of white
your drooling tracks battered
summer thermals
Sunday noon light Jimmy Stewart’s cylinders
a
jaunty breeze to brittle star white
like buildings ditto ditto silver fresh scraps
old stain on the flags apt seashell
union
captured knots tin tinted clouds a rosy wreckage
leaf fire blooms scribbled cancer the bluing dusk
fresh
neckties a neighbour’s tracks where the wild wind
stuttered cancer flares sweet & bright rain
speechless
tucked inside the maisonette’s glass
Copyright © Simon
Turner, 2007
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