In one body we moved to the stage 
but the doors were of Iron & bolted against us 
and now we lie falling into microbes and stray foils
ready to meet our archaeological morning.

– Anna Mendelssohn

***

Hello the body well
                         curt ampitheatre come
(I report on what I fear was unmet)
                        a heap of recollection tossed
convivially    hot corn    convivially     language,

                                                                         & time

                                             untie     unto – I
                                             done recoiled the dial 

                                                                         reseal

                                              the ray – will 
                                              turn away 

                                                                         towards

                                               once more 
                                               vibratory May

                                                                         alight

                                                di-rect     die-right 
                                                dirige rectaline 

                                                                         sort

                                                curd from whey 
                                                read here corpse in brine 

                                                                         give the

                                                 word
                                                 your claw       a body 

                                                                         mine

                                                A neural sky 
                                                is sliding over
                                                my my image heap 
                                                thick suds 
                                                dream colon wash     
                                                stuck bounty 
                                                bow aim arch afternoon-tea
                                                neck neck tie crown 
                                                sweep

consummate the cells 
Dream images 
forgotten 
Aug 4. 
ash everywhere
the line the lining of the head the head 
the line the lining 
blown the head head 
Here, plural empty populate 
location falls the back the base 

                                        into the vistas edges open open 
                                        into the vista edge and endless : onto: open 
                                        on to the vista edge & endless. towards 
                                        encore encore – all the doors encore 
                                        encore door door on door on lens 
                                        edge & endless 
                                        format fountain 
                                        handed escalator its filling head 
                                        head-ful
                                        vista vista door

ash – fill in
               where the eye is
                             pigment-season
               & regulate 

                  from the
beside cells past assemble
                        crease open
single nebula lash

                              detect & scan 
                 for the Pure 
                              too-little-back
too heavy breach photo fold
                                    dark growing into
                        lid close 
into the            were not able         past confession

                         into mass
             detect sclera aim fold    aim fold

             dismember substance
true figure         high swinging         before hard ground 

             unlock cloud
                                  here where you multiply
in sleep 
                         & lash orientation to the flue

                                             scaffolded
                                             the fossil is excised

                                             the heart – organ red & blue
                                             off-pitch tube 
                                             instrument high blues –

                                                        old prospect spell
                                                                            down  
                                                                            the speed of a stare

                                                        into its many wells
                                               and tears and maintenance

ray of sun split the dust
inside your cells inhabit
                                  underleaf
                                  gram graf
                                  animal work

                                             flames of darkness
                                             forge a path

                                             try to breathe into reappearance
                                             flickering figures against the figure
                                             of the earth

                                             - its moving
                                                       close to you
                                             & italicised 

                                             rear the ignition for limp muscles
                                             & hearts quik’ning

                                             its dynamic
                                             thirsty, a

                                             symbolic thirst
                                             deep in the cradle of speak
                                             the silhouette of ore

                                             the word a cast and flickering around shades of dark

***

These poems are taken from the collection VOCABLE, forthcoming with Crater Press.