viper earth/ theatre of...
grave(n)/
vault of
unspoken death of a cataract skyline
I alone/
spun lock until
in the traces of bled dry
ever-less
the ever-less of
the collapsed bones of purpose
salve of the un-being
I of the whispering/
said less
the better said the more of which from less till follow
on from
the candle extinguished
a garrotted throat
and bled neck of foreign
posing no...
all distances/
the mimicry of...
blind scars/
the laughter's abyss
settled to shiv of breath
mocking the
stitch of reprieve
spun dead
but one/ lock-alack/...
(silent as...
wavering of...)
when wavering walls blind mine I
fragmentary
as if/ because/ said/ murmured
bleak ash
the blood beneath the fingernails of silence
mocking the itch
stitch
of the redeem
(in)skin of none/
embers final
and the balk of
despair's cleft/ obscene
the dregs the taste of swollen eyes
(O)piated
the fields close around the throat of fist
I/
left to scarring
redolent
of the breath irredeemable
trading bone dice
for shadow's bound and winds to know
I spy/ kaleidoscope
the infinite
I am of the none/ stun abounding
Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born (1976). His most recent work has appeared in ditch, Gobbet Magazine, Ygdrasil, Establishment, Carcinogenic, Stride Magazine, A New Ulster, Primal Urge, Slit Your Wrists, The Galway Review, etc. A full length collection of poems, Attributes, was published by Desperanto in 2011. Lapwing Publications (Ireland) recently released another collection of his poems, The Non Herein. The Knives, Forks & Spoons Press (U.K) will release Emblems and also an ekphrastic book of text/ art, Machinations, very soon. Further works are forthcoming from Quarter After Press. He also edits Bone Orchard Poetry, a webzine of the surreal, the dark, the absurd, the bleak, and the experimental...
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