(…as pierce edge blind colour fissure electrolight burnt time nothing of (the …) matter of once was closure emblem ever of (the …) steps nothing taken from nor given across the steel surfaces of forgotten love where of till drift dim a circumferent of bloodless feel blood what zero close of closure wind electro-convulsive nights & (the…)/ long sung long whisper/s there of the once long dredge of rip flesh bestial escapade of shit terse an approximation certitude poise before given razor-shaft sharpened incision into/ womb echo trace of never once strip(ped) of ship a barbarous kiss of insectal life throughout where of where one can merely matter & no more/ that was the voice that crashed cyclindrical echo-din dim the shadow that collect/s silent as was once long cast prevaricate spit in (the… )/ lack laughter-breath(e) it seasonal collapse as of singular extent a degree of flesh of nothing from which a poise a splendour-light wither/ singularly fingers to drag through night’s absolute devour leave of leave perhaps the stricken screaming frame dead what once as of (the… ) words that once sustainted…)
by degrees/ by fathom purchase lock of bone of jaw of eye usurped a dead tone fragrance neither syllabus merely a vibration blood to spillage thrash of cold carcass loveless drag tone kick of screaming of throughout where kick=stone breath spat out/ desire of hench yet ever the following man given to shovel up the shit left trailing behind/eyes that once forever in the gleam of which by which cascade a random axe a trace of lifeless ice-born night/less blessed the yes of steel till know/ all dead once it murmurs in the midst of singular for once (the …) laughter ceased as bones picked clean a vermin sabotage of colour/ings a drift of decay throughout concrete caress ever of the desire for untold sudden lapse of fallen neither of the before/as
steel glint tread
oxidate of flesh carcass-blind-as
night’s limbs
bound ochre-blood-taint much like shit
shadowfall desire
for the once that never was nor…
flicks a cigarette
end into the face of one’s once love
fingers reach to
ocular forgotten
winter leaves
black ice white
sheet of ice white sheet amber distance
null of entity
skull white
helm of spinal
exigency a film of dread cold sweat null
temperate as…
haven nothing of
from out of which
(the screen
melts away reveal of darkness utterance)
swarm
(…a seasonal dismay/ a wasteland/ a broken jaw/ tearing out one’s teeth…)
black helm across
which was giveth traceless colours never of from spill of accordionic polka of
despair through grit of bone upon bone as circus eyes turn to phlegm spat from
helm of gaping would desire’s edge further furthering where from headless
abandon warp shadow tint flay upon cold whitewashed wall in the half-light as
nothing have of begun trace electrical solar dead once forgotten ever question
breath once know eye once known & all that ever of throughout in in-between
spits out orchid ice burned black as meat cannot disposition swarm it close of
breakage as laughter bellow belonging nothing null nor void some silence embers
collapse not 1
—Michael Mc Aloran
