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Michael Dickel has been so kind as to publish 3 of my poems on Meta / Phor(e) / Play

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sewing the bright spaces

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Reuben Woolley

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stitching up the holes

		                       like

black 
windows where 
the light

leaks 
	       out

see the craters 
the fat 
drops of rain 
in dry dust

		                  spaces 
looking for me

to hollow out this 
white 
skull

tat         tat         tat

                                 "spaces
looking for me"
Michael Dickel
Digital landscape from photos
©2017

these liquid hills

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Reuben Woolley

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drowning

in my solid earth

		           & how
these mountains grow

listen to grave
rumour
	            they talk
to me now & in
my dying

	            deep
in all their roots

		    pull
me down / they're waiting

patient

like stones always do

“these liquid hills”—
Amalfi Coast Overlay
Michael Dickel
Digital landscape from photos
©2017

a fully moon after all these years

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Reuben Woolley

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holding myself / still / i am dust floating in torch light.i am tree cutting a sky & rain falls newly just ask for no answer & here’s a lost song.unplay me…

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Rebel Angel in Quest of Moral Compass by Nick Cooke

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Bugger buggery buggeration

I have lost me m.c.

………………somewhere in the cracks of time

and tomorrow morning I will be called

…..to account for me possessions

…..and when I’m forced to admit me lapse

………………as the rules stand I could be ejected

on the spot, cast out like

……………………………………….that fallen angel who might soon be

me new guvnor if I don’t watch

……me step

I half suspect

…..someone nabbed it

……….while I slept

……………..someone in His pay

trouble is

…..without the fucker itself

the will to track it down

………gradually recedes

it’s a kind of vicious circle

…………that’s pretty bloody vicious

you start to be glad

….your m.c.’s gone

……….you feel a freedom

wasn’t there before

*

Bastard bastardy bastardisation

I’m out on me ear

………………………St Peter was mortified

by me attitude and choice of…

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A Poem for Frank Postmodernly by Jim Lawrence

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So I was writing or trying to write a poem riffing on Frank O’Hara’s style (I remember Peter Lawson telling us Frank’s dune buggy crash was ‘a pretty camp death’)just jotting it down off the top of my head in my BAZINGA! notebook that Meredith gave me for a Xmas gift in 2015 or maybe a year or two earlier (memory is so unreliable) but giving it a self-reflexive twist at the end not having anything personal or political or Objectivist or Imagist to write about and because I like his poems and even his essay Personism: a Manifesto which I skimmed when studying postmodern American poetry at university and which I at least understood unlike that Charles Olson essay on Projective Verse or anything about the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets and what they are getting up to these days and thinking about Anne Waldman putting makeup on empty space when I…

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Not Useless Island by Jude Cowan Montague

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My ears grow keener in silence; land crabs clatter among wahoo, sailfish, boobies and noddies. Man made this garden, not God. No snakes, for adders would eat eggs and we’d  eradicate them as swiftly as we have our other mistakes: feral cats, ship rats. We emptied out our bags of roots and seeds choosing orange blooms, twisted branches and pine aroma suggesting amorous evenings.

An island made new for beauty: creatures are born to touch. An island made new for truth: people must tell the stars what goes on in their hearts. Our species are into communication. We’ve poised dishes to pick up the tiny friends in the stratosphere.

In this low key jungle voices ring better. Is that you vibrating? I clamber among the tight-lipped rocks praising their sienna black-brown, the designer moss, cushion-tussocks, creepy carpets: our Pacific theatre. Green curtains roll back to announce the court of Ascension.

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Past Perfidious by Jude Cowan Montague

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An eye, a pool

two pillars, three trees.

The palace of cool

intelligence leads

two women to a panorama

of red-jacketed warriors

and the bloody encounter of sword

and skin. Criss cross, burgundy

carpets.

Paintings

on podiums, busts immobilising

moustaches and epaulettes.

Arms up on glass case,

a curious body looks

down on tiny boats floating

on the blue channel

above which the military mini

aircraft hang from threads.

Cattle keep their inquisitive heads up

in cases on mahogany legs

fashion once thought to display such elegant curves,

French curves,

the setting adding a mysterious varnish

to the bovine horns.

Silent cattle. They don’t chew,

no lowing.

Fans don’t whirr

on the moulded door frames.

No breeze for tourists,

hot, hot, no breeze for attendants

merely oodles and steaks

of faded cow-glory.

Geese fly away

wild across glassy

picturesque fields, reflecting windows

behind the keeper,

who has large hands.

One…

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PERFUMED PORTRAYALS 7 GUERLAIN – NAHEMA by Aad de Gids

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if this clinging roseconcoction is a twinperfume to Creeds “Fleurs de Bulgarie”

(and it is) then it accomplishes that with a lot more tones and notes equalling

the same similarity to headiest roses cultivars yet snaking in these roses with

other supporting flowers and raw matter compensating perhaps for the ambergris

which characterizes Creeds perfumery so, with the Guerlinade pillar of Guerlain

 

I can definitely smell oakmoss, an essential for Guerlain, grounding the as airy

as unbelievable dense bulgarian rose co/smelling also vanilla and wat seems to

me to be cinnamon. and before I now consult the wheel of notes “scentpyramid”

I smelled ylang-ylang and peach. where I smelled cinnamon apparently I could

have detected sandelwood and further there are a lot more supporting elements

 

the hyacinth which one so overpoweringly gets in Oriza L.Legrands “Marrions

Nous” here seems more subdued within yet another cornucopia of flowers and

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Reinvent by Mandy Macdonald

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every               so

………….often

This time

avant
………………..garde

.

*

.
O

wrap me

warm

take me
away   /     back
to my own city

where
……………….before I

died

let me live

……………………..again

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