Identity
The merchants who design attention. Steady state in mind. I want to or not. My decisions & comparisons. Diverted. What counts.
As before, another hint. None of us as simple. I give submission. Aimed at me. Take it on. Narrow gap.
My order & chaos restored. Words comment. Far off. What could I be? I am tender with savants. A purpose to see. My composite.
Subject as object. I clear the road. My receding laws. Smashed against. I am clever enough. I mutate. I mutate.
I am caught up. A scent picked up. I show confidence. I shift from strategy. Honey followed by wax. Every day a holiday.
My face apart. Hour by hour drives by. Where I am.
Robert Flanagan
Giant Sky of The Shepherds
ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 197
GUERNICA
TORONTO BUFFALO BERKELEY LANCASTER (U.K.) 2012 ... of death striking us through our fear.
Ren Gimpel
Assertion
I look for another route. My tribunal to come.
I regret my dispute. I am elevated & statement. My waiting room on display. Ornaments ahead of chase. Line into pour. All the rooms.
Which I doubt. Years & hours wasted as appropriate. My smile. Ships & stars. Invention in a script. As if not here.
Face to face. At last abstract. I advance. My excellent progress. My objects I heal over. My street of schemes prescribed.
How they cured me in privacy of the valid. I am solved. My basics inside subdued behaviour. Insistent chore. My apathy into welcome supplied. Immersion drum-roll control.
My headlong action concealing them. I know. Who lives where I live? I am before breaking news. My wealth shakes your wealth. My rapid development. I am anywhere.
My self-conscious leap, embedded. Ready.
Contents
Assertion Involved Telling Beneath Condition Curtain Realized Action Obligation Man Limping Escape Around Chair Outcome Protection Already Seen Doctrine Stroke of Oars Relations Between Determination Not to Remain Interior Perception Liberty & Union The Race Preparation Wide Open Expression Account Consequences Never Unique Intrusion Bold Manner Stay There Participant Im Outside Watched Mobility Quickly Grown-Up Price Chaos Scattered Request Transcend & Fuse Within Not Beyond Emphasis In Relation Element Combination Departure Justice Advantage Wheeling the Garbage Exhibited Opposite Waiting Reaction Sun for Lunch Service Examine Huge Open Landscape Grown Strong Intervention Aptitude Demanding Single Death Ingredient Conscious Uncertainty Would Lose Attendance Clean Snow Every Day Assemble What Happens Represent At Ease Movement Sign Made of Sign Reinforces Alive Aperture Rumbled Past A Net On the Run The Bare Essentials Branches Black I Had Travelled Possibility Curious Sound Drowns On a Serene Afternoon Identity PRAISE FOR ROBERT FLANAGANS POETRY ABOUT THE AUTHOR for Ellie, Nick, & Sarah
Involved
Except that it should go on. Different. The naked wall. The main stain spread out.
A field & a beach. Close & remote. Life organized. Attention cut & tapered. Dependent. My mental weight.
My flesh & blood. I run & wait. My sediment. Common action. The old fashion. Not consolation.
Fast as breath increased away. Accelerated into. I am represented exceeded. I exchange. I coincide my response in the transaction. Pushed & pulled from earth to air.
Not to have detail, impatience.
Telling
I am snapped into it. Hands behind back. What is made known. I am freed from location. Salt sand wave.
Opening & closing. Sand on scene. My value. I finally accomplish in other choice. Are as usual in a different position. The youngest day.
The true situation chemical, physical. Eyelids white from salt. My most proper. My trance in the blast. Another language. What I dont expect translation.
I spend my breath in surplus belief. Feast & discovered. I am in speech carapace.
Beneath
Energy direct calculating occupier I am unable to escape. For the sake of lucidity. No matter what happens.
Attempt & explain or not. I conceal warning. I am near my answer. My dented concern. My blind relief about the brand view. Echo at me.
I submerge recognition. I cope with the client. Claw caught. I shout to warm myself. Located. My near alone.
My solitary hope woven no doubt. I want to see together. Here under austerity. Not to forget my horizontal vertical needed. Claim refrigerated.
Condition
Surge of interest.
Condition
Surge of interest.
Do I know? Why not? I forgot. My axle. I am among people. I sleep fresh. Summer & autumn. Landscape tuned.
My human voice. Peace & quiet. It is superb. Full of logic my packing papers. Direct & grand procedures. Small bays & estuaries.
Lightning brass.
Curtain
Shadow in sunlight. Mouth universe conscious. My concern & influence. Glory not in me. Estimate being certain.
Or in none who heard. I am given. Taken I mean imaginable. Convinced & ceased. Doubt carries context. Imitate. Imitate.
What I know. Terminal departure. Heavy autumn rains without mood. On the streets as I recollect. I am not surprise. Future from past.
Present, I conclude. My hunger & familiar I confine & I forget.
Realized Action
Appear again. My original day now. An aura of restraint used. Snow rags around tree.
Wear active bell body. Cobalt blue. One of a number distilled. Explained & exposed tapping furniture. Organize disperse. Siren evacuate.
Order evasion. A way brought in. Then when I tell. I signal. I am so sure. I direct verification.
I exert & provoke proof result. A remedy to cure. Explain how aside. I find. I name.
Obligation
Put it that way.
At most, I was gone for a day. I, up through. Later than. I serve in the function. I work out of whirling, daring, days. Bunched.
My exclusive contract from corner to corner. My installed rolling interest. Serpent time. My own force. Effort & idle. I look sideways.
I am frequent preparation. Gesture direct, I am told to be enough.
Man Limping
Man limping. Head tender. Shadow on cement. I am not. I am not.
Health rude. Corrupt choppy speed salute combat. Core dare ointment. Weak, carried. Thought not, knot. Protracting actual.
Heavily falling. Soft mineral. Floor nursing inert. Irreverence loyal. Half-way to ear blanket pulled up. Endless clouds, sunlight piled under.
Scissored cloud. Again, after. In, expel. Hit smartly chant. Why waste a word? Ready, not ready.
Escape
I am in progress.
Escape
I am in progress.
Blood colour. Skin & bone inscribed. My favourable result. The reward I expect. In reverse. yet to happen.
As though I never existed. Pomp of instructors. Confining channel. Put in. I am suspended. Through my eyes until I am there evasive.
Up & down. Pictures, events the years. My intimate sources welcomed. My search in districts. I begin at the subsiding struggle. Hurry up. Finished. Finished.
Never find me. My intoxication in numbers. Noted.
Around Chair
Around chair. At bending. Fold & fall.
Fibres in a rope. Glass tank. Hide head. My companion. Seconds ministered. Crouch in. Crouch in.
Small, intimate. Reduce after. Rushes me in-fill, pull under. Metal to rope retain exchange. Grasshopper nimble.
Outcome
Summon up my blood.
Outcome
Summon up my blood.
My private strategy of unique importance. Burn me. I trust intolerable less than zero. Real & relief. The sea out to the island. My first mouthful of saltwater.
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