Episiotomy
the delicate steels are leaning in a row on blue
blue cloths awaiting their use
they think she cannot see this or does not know
the hook/ the blind/ the knife /the thread-skein/
the needle point for when the rupture will begin
as it will
she stumbles past wearing the gown and carrying
her paper-cup of ice ice-water : to wake him up
inside the silica of this holding-skin
inside the silica of this holding-skin
beneath crystal swipe and tungsten tip
the exact point
drain then seep
the vessel-encasement sustains until form becomes
as apparent as the meconium distress which is all
over the cloths the linens the floor / blood is everywhere
the globe is hook burst / there is a body curled into the skin
stitched in caul and head / they will /
use the steel tips to force him out
catapult reprise 1
a bone-handled knife is no the tool for dissection/ section/ caesarean /abortion
episiotomy
red thigh rivulet is always beneath bone-handled knife / hook & blood-bag
hook & water-bag /
and catapult
over cloth/ linen / floor / and a body curled stitched / caul-head /
use the steel tip the exact/ the exact point
drain then seep /
a bone-handled knife is not the tool for dissections/
sections/cesarians/abortions/
the red thigh rivulet is always beneath /the bone-handled knife/
form is 3
a bone-handled knife is not tool for dissection section abortion caesarean episiotomy red thigh
rivulet is always beneath bone-handled knife hook & blood-bag hook & waterbag / catapult
over cloth/ linen floor /
and a body curled / stitched /
caul-head /
use the steel tip
the exact
.
drain then seep /and drain/ seep to/ break it /
form is /
and red thread the open wound
the gash split and threaded into the toe’s round
a pummelling of dust making red blue-hued and
the drill down split mercury of the mirror shard leaded
underfoot and pounded to dust and now the shatter of it
the shattering of the mirror and from it a skein bled
into a thread a bit of spinning from furies’ daughter her
yes her line (her skein) is emergent from the mirror now
I knew that it would be : the room is full with pounded glass
pummelled to blue-hued dust a dust engrained ,
yes engrained in :
your dance
your heel
your arch
your twirling rage
the red thread is in the open wound
red on gold under gold the red thread
red on gold under gold the red thread will tie in the sequin
the dress will transform from the funerary gown of soft cloth
metal pearl mother-of-pearl the peacock sequins emphasise
the scar : where it was cradled in soft cloth/ it shifts with light
it now shifts with light
a battle armour with shiny metal frilling
the metal frill catches and disperses light from
embonpoint to point of candlelight it is no dust
no accretion of dust occurs in the music of fabric
sequin it : it hides the wound
sequin it : with the red thread
sequin it : the loosed skein
tack it in
stitch on stitch
and sequin it
cover it
The Blind is a book length poem about the Furies operation in a contemporary setting.
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