Paul A. Green

DUMP CRACKING

(Could quite easily refer to some form of damage that needs to be dumped.
Describes the process of diagnosing faults in programs of system management
software.

Seek a future role in post-mortem dump-cracking, to check whether a failure
was caused perhaps by some incident long ago )

1

how a mind works out
at a flame-grilled edge of tonight

how phenomena turn tricksy
no longer in a safe middling
where cubes of wise books talked gravitas

humming roomscape presses it right up
against a glaze of being

2

the sky the infinite hole

tools useless in the wide wind

perforations of time

to burn your garden furniture

the stars hiss down

unshielded radiance

3

The voices of the war crowd in. Heads push up through the sands of many
dreams, spouting blood. This is the sport of kings. The heads swivel as they
scream. But who has buried them? Is this the timed homework of our homeland?
Is it a general issue pack I must vomit up like a bolus of demonised pork?

4

a descendant places the old word
in his new mouth
tests it for plosive impact
giggles carefully
dropping it into the syntax
and picks up a plastic brick

5

Man with bread fruit tummy ( fur-covered) sits across pink bed. Hope his
signs will pull him into being-in-itself. He's sick with vagueness. Real
people are out there building dams, guns, machine tools. They have hot
essence.

6

I enter myself in the frame
of apocalypse comix splatcake
dancing in the brilliant squares

recall father nodding at death
and the house sinking in the mist
children save this time capsule