John W. Sexton

 Vhuck9

and flavoured to deter rats ...

live forever

as a bowl of sludge

a guitar note brands

a weal in thought ... mangling worms

push through

she secures the fog

with a golden cord ... daylight

is held from the king

barking ...

Laika makes entry 

in the earthless mind

Captain Kronk descends 

the soft grotto ... an

exhalation of become

a twist of his magic

pepper-mill

her lips get hot

a glass door clinks shut

the beekeeper arranges

his beard of bees

her comb grits its teeth ...

Ophelia's knotted hairs

keep their grip on land

666 locust wings

to make that wedding veil

... the groom wore sores

maggot vixens

of Vhuck9 …

men for breakfast

John W. Sexton is the author of four previous poetry collections, the most recent being Vortex (Doghouse, 2005) and Petit Mal (Revival Press, 2009). His fifth collection, The Offspring of the Moon, is due from Salmon Poetry in spring 2013. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons Of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.