Dom Gabrielli-

After Pasolini's Medea

  

there would have been delight once

in the scattered body of the victim

whose blood was smeared upon the grain and the pod

on the black and brown surfaces of the earth

his handsome face and hand his testicles

carried in a frenzy to unknown summit

so he was just a smile

at the executioner

his destiny a broken neck in spring

as the crowds gathered to scatter his axed members

the camera's deliberate shaking

like the smile a man sends to another

in the hiatus between jagged stills

the beauty of any wholeness is just colour

is just a body just a face a pair of eyes or legs

deep valleys and mediterranean rocks

burning in the power of almighty indifference

what then is a world without gods

what then is a world without sacrifice

the god that hid in an enigma

the god of a premonition the god of a smile

which ushered you to make love

as life depended upon it

to assassinate your rival

in the same wild act of love

gods were never benevolent entities

you could never talk to them

they admonished as they killed

they ordered the scatterings of innocent men's blood

they raped and pillaged for jealousy

they were the intolerable and the unjust

the hero is not himself

he is just the feelings he has

spontaneously between one sentence and another

between the orders of a fool

and the hideous spittle of a monster

just a conduit

between one god's game and another's fury

the dialectic of his insignificance

playing in fields of the unknown

the movement between one god's penetrating finger

and the amussis of judgement

Dom Gabrielli studied literature at Edinburgh and New York Universities and prepared for his doctorate in Paris and New York. Gabrielli’s passion for French literature and thought led him to begin writing, translating, and teaching. He translated widely including published works by Bataille,  Leiris and Jabes. In the early 1990’s, he left the academic world to travel and devote himself to writing. He has published two books to date. The Eyes of a Man (2009), his first book of poetry, and The Parallel Body (2010), which earned considerable praise. Several new books are on their way. Gabrielli has also published several individual poems and interviews, notably at Leaf Garden Press, The Poetry Bay, Vox Poetica and Real Stories Gallery. Gabrielli's books are here:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/search?searchTerm=dom+gabrielli&search=search. His own whereabouts on an axis between language and nowhere.