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Thursday 17 April 2014

Gillian Prew


from "The Black Stanzas"
 
(i) a yoke of blood/my iris-eye
 
Too narrow and grief/stressed by what the toil has tied me to/
a yoke of blood and the weeping flies. All-droop
the black leaking/the drip of wet dust being born. Sun,
the magic sleeper roofed-out and black. Black again
men’s hearts/winter hearts/bags of breathless black.
First spring snowdrop from my iris-eye blooming here
on the concrete/its white-scented sisters a wood away.
 
 
(ii) a road of blood/a dome of cold
 
Like snow on the moon the cold tucked-in all glass
and weeping winter motes/a road of blood/ of red-
pepper tones tucked-up in a dome of cold. Blue,
the silent summer throats hooked and stuck. Hauled/
black salts/the wounds of weak indifference gold.
 
 
(iii) the crush of life/the food I am
 
A scrape/a stun/a sticking knife. The crush of life/
the food I am.  Up-bent and ruined red. Red into
the sticking black. Shut-down and meat/no epitaph.
 
 
(iv) a black hole/a blue planet
 
Is to slow darken/is to stagger,           spin.
Myself nothing/a truckload of me nothing/
a black hole of us fading. A pinhole of sky
a blue planet/an eye.


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