Friday 29 April 2011

Full Frontal Jazz


_______FULL FRONTAL JAZZ__________
LONGER THAN A BREATH
- SHORTER THAN A LIFE


in a hall of disconnected
telephones that ring at midnight,
with the high roof of the abandoned
Dolphinarium an infinity above them,
the habits of friendship remain
like the condensation on the wall,
she’s a wasted Left Bank Bohemian,
rodent-black straight hair, shades,
existentialism & a cigarette holder,
she carries a sign “unclean”, & feels it
gnawing at her innards like Spartan foxes

he writes poems in the manner of ticker-tape
print-outs, telling her “the angles of your
face are Cubist paintings intersecting
the dying light of neutron stars”, and
sometimes she even believes him,
and then they leave the looted tins
in tall geometrical configurations
& emerge into the ruins of the city
where the tektites play,
& try to reach the point
on the horizon where
both sides of the
empty highway
meet...

...& the beaches
are filled with wolves



Published in:
‘AMBIT no.79’ (UK - August 1979)
‘KRAX no.17’ (UK - July 1982)
‘UMBRAL ANTHOLOGY OF SF POETRY’
(USA - November 1984)
and in collections:
‘EUROSHIMA MON AMOUR’ Hilltop Press (UK-Oct 2000)
‘JINGLES FOR DISCORD’
(Bound-into ‘MINOTAUR no.42 vol.9 no.3’)
(USA – September 2004)

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