‘an americano to go’
an americano to go
black of a white man’s heart
crude statistics
when were they kin
daubed with shitty feathers
eggs broken in a bowl
footnotes about emails
when were they kin
growing weed under LEDs
headlines and tenderness
in the moment of conception
when were they kin
john smith marries jane doe
klaxons sounding
languages east west north south
when were they kin
my emigre son
notes from strings of a mandolin
olives in a screw-top jar
when were they kin
pulsing blue in the Uber driver’s ear
queries on the first page
red sky in the morning
when were they kin
share like like share
tangled nests of fishing line
up and over the brim
when were they kin
very near the end
when bridges are burning
xanthoma tendinosum
you wake and you’re done
when will you understand
zest and intelligence
when were they kin
when were they kin
Many thanks Bill.
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Thank you, Martyn, for your sequence – just read Day 2, then laughed aloud upon googling the member for E&E – who else?! (Knew it couldn’t be JR-M as he’s thisaway, but there were plenty more to choose from, and on health and safety grounds I can’t carry all of the fast-moving – or stubbornly shut – drawers of the Cabinet in my head.) Even the (necessary, I’m aware) advert on this page today reads rather like a apt ‘found fragment’ (The all-new Peugeot Rifter / The day is yours). I look forward to the rest of the poems…though not what their countdown currently implies…
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