1. D10 HUM

Here, in this world

first play

then a wait

Cock of ages

crow for me

The people who would come after

would not be real

You could end this at once

                      - or

Questi frammenti . . . certo, ed anche gli aforismi

He strode out in Sean Bonney’s clothes

finding then one stray tenner in the pocket

the dark neat jacket suddenly blessed

extraordinary how the mimetic functions!

“But in the case of poetry it’s often a relief not to possess that old desideratum, ‘a voice’, and not to resemble oneself.”

Denise Riley, The Words of Selves: Identification, solidarity, irony (Stanford UP, 2001), p 62

At this point in our ending

here comes the spatter pattern

– I always imagine it

don’t you?

Bouncing on the bed with bears

At this point

in our ending

a bigger crash

following thru

to backswash