The Carpet Fitter and the Miner’s Strikes


A picket-line/
crossed-can/
leave-a-little/
man-lost/
despite-being/
just-a-boy/
when-the-strikes/
took-place./
Boundaries/
embossed/
leave/
dumbstruck/
picketed-rods/
strewn-across/
backs-of-polloi./
Uncled-pike./
Coked-hate./
The-coaly/
burrows/
are-filled/
and-gone/
from-sight/
but-the-feuds/
still-carve/
deep-shafts/
in-hearts/
and-min
ds/es./
Generations/
are-instilled/
with-wounds/
black-bright./
Scabby-crude./
That-dig/
and-craft-into/

an, asphyxiated, dead, canary,
at, the, very, bottom.

Of-a-pigeonholed/
unmoving-min
e/d./

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One, Two, Three, Four.


Once, upon,
a crime,
unconscionable,
grime,
started to,
eat away,
at me;
mouldy.
But, I said,
“I am fine. At least none of the time.”
as, the snows,
set, in gray,
mixed, with,
green,
coldly.

Twice, upon, a shrine, I battled, a couple,
of, faces,
seperated,
by, a, single, line.
They, went, by, the name, of, Janus.
Cries, and, prattles,
of, zodiac signs,
and, serrated intent,
cut, through,
lives, of, nine,
and, cats, had,
twelve kittens,
in, their places.

Thrice, upon,
a shine,
a magic number,
frequented,
and, a trio, of, doored futures, occurred.
There, was, one,
boring, benign,
and, one,
unrelented,
and, a final one,
so, silly,
that, it, was,
absurd.
I, asked for,
none of them,
instead, for, the windows, above, them.
So, I, cleaned,
polished, and,
brushed, them.
Then, as, I,
declined,
the Moon,
presented,
a fourth option,
deferred.
It, was, a future,
of, mine,
as, free, and,
uncemented,
as, the, upward, cascading, ghost, of, a bird.

And, finally,
hencefourth, upon, that, which, is, divine,
I, now, fly,
over, and,
across, universal divides, filled, with, sky,
knowing,
that, in,
every,
teardrop,
that,
I cry,
lives, great, galaxies, of, wondrous, light,
and, that,
my sadness, creates, the forces, of, life.

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Safe-Passge


I, awoke, steeped,
in, a, damp, open-grave,
as, unimport, and, hungover,
as, an, imperial-slave.
The, ship’s, surrendering,
mast, wrapped, around,
a, wreckaged,
unpieced, mishap.
The, dispirited, bow, of,
a, capsized, night’s,
deeds, unforgiving,
and, the, bottled,
land, of, the, imperiled, living,
I, spuriously, sent, as, far,
as, I, could, away.
I, knelt, in, paradigm-shifting,
waves, and, I, prayed,
on, an, upset, desolate, sea,
for, safe-passage,
to, some, better,
person’s, day.

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An Ode to Heart

Written by Callum Featherstone   To capture, nurse, and, hold, the unfairness of it all. The rapturous, coal- heartedness, of Hellish  snares, beneath, the Mall. When, afterwards, those  cauldrons, spout nightly  mares, of, bridled gall. The captor cursed, his embold- ened heir, is, a; hairless toupee, sheared, and, effortlessly, shorn.   The flesh, is, pierced, […]

An Ode to Heart

Swansong



   so-
A    mb-
        re,
       Sw-
       a-
      n’s,
    cu-
    rl-
ing,
ne-                Rarely,
ck. takes, the time, to, longingly,
straighten out. If, it, took, a honking
step, toward; a banal, straight line. Wo-
uld, Lir, hear, his children’s; swansong?
Or, pinion feathers, flip, on breezes, as, they,
                  flap, about?

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Apex’s Pique


Sojou-
rning, sco-
rnfully, to J-
upiter’s red s-
pot. The circu-
lar, scarlet rage,
it, roundly, and, r-
ubily, rotates, into
whirlwinds, of ste-
aming, magma, hot.
The firef-lies, lay, t-
heir eggs, in; truth,
and, hope, that, d-
eceptions, hatch.
The batches, fl-
y, never, brou-
ght to, light.
Oppressi-
vely, the-
y, stay.

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Skins of Adder



Is, it, really, worth,
luxuriously, spending,
any, of, the time, thinking about,
a laborious, zig-zag, evolution,
when, we’ve, all, gro-
und, to a halt, and,
the neverending story,
has, fallen down, tumbling…
tragically, then,
…drowned, in, sobbing,
bottomless puddles,
keen for; restitution.
Be careful, when, slither-
ing up, the greasy ladder,
to, pole position, when,
it’s, a long way down.
The slippery slopes, moult
and, slough, most,
like, the skins of add-er.
Poisoned with rage,
they; take-away,
every, soul cast, equalling;
the loss, of, much more,
than, is, ever,
found.


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“…we’ll be back after these messages.”


Advertising, and, selling; avarice.
From, a soap box, of; loving hate.
When, it’s, screens, are, turned-off,
the blackened, square hole, is; cavernous.
When, it’s, viewership, is, turned-on,
the captor’s, uncleanly; reel in the bait.

Once, steeled, and, mettled, imaginations.
Welded, into; cerebral shackles.
Worn by, zombies; the meaty prisoners,
in, solitary cells, of; fabrication.
Webbed, lied-to, wrists; impressed upon,
misunderstand, their; upped hackles.

Furring clasps, around; synapses.
The servitude, of, stroke-ing, lost selves.
Capital flesh, is, imprisoned, in, the
cholesterol, of, shop aisles. It collapses.
“There’s, MORE, in the back… Hurry up!!
Stop thinking… Stock the shelves!!”

Want’s desires; outlived hope, and, outlast,
any, notion, or, sense, of, mind.
Audienced memories, are; captured,
by; dredged, forgetful, enmeshed; pasts.
‘Compatriots of Togetherness’, are;
canned myth; unlaughed. Re-runs; resigned

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Speculum


The pills don’t
make me any better
anyway. It’s all just another
person’s scheme.
They just leave
a bitter taste…

…leave me bitter…

…without a mirror to save
face. And without a self
or even it’s esteem.
Without a saving grace.
Just simply without.

insomnia is just,/,tsuj si ainmosni
a word,/,drow a
these days,/,syad eseht
it all blurs into a,/,a otni srulb lla ti
breathless scream,/,maercs sselhtaerb

I wish upon some stars but they don’t
hear me calling.
Maybe because we are both too busy
lovelessly falling
from our broken skies and dreams.

I used to be so sure that these indignant
days would pass. That I’d reach a peak
up high above the flat. Made in my honour.
And peer into joy through a looking glass.

but, that, too, fell…

cracked,/,dekcarc

broke,/,ekorb

and, shattered,/,derettahs into morose,

just, like, everything else.

The apologies don’t reach this far down.
Sor-./.-roS

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Midwinter’s Lamentation


Midwinter,
is, an unsleeping, corpse bride, unwed.
Who’s tormented grief, permeates,
the ether. She’s, permanently, entombed
in, every; glistening, sorrowful, cracked,
mirror, that seems to, impress upon,
the pitch, the brick, and, the grass,
the forested branch, and, tarmac…

reflecting Her open caskets of bitter hatred.

Runaway lover,
uncaught. Jilted, by a luminary, of
the day. Which, means, no light, can, ever,
comfort Her. There, can be, no other.
Not even, His, night-time adversary.
All, that was, uplifting, became, vacuumed,
icy dunes of hope; dead, unshifting,
through, limp, wet fingers, sifting…

solar grins outshone moonlit passes made.

Hearken to, Her.
She, embodies; a silent, keening chorus.
It grips, all, it touches, far, or, near,
with, unmoving, silent decibels.
Freezing, on impact, with; clear, dulcet, spiked, nothingness. Please, my dear,
be careful, not to crush, Her, underfoot…

air rues another year of Her spinsterhood.

A, lament, seizes.
Each, day, and, night, as Her, immortal,
enemy. Making them; rigid, uptight,
uneasy. Immovable, except, of course,
for the eyes. She, has; Her reasons. He,
always, used to, compliment, Her features.
Now, She longs, for a love, that, unfreezes…

pray to propose, thaw’d, do; Neptune, Pluto.

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