Fitted kitchen contractions, disinfected façades, fake fears.
Electronic reproductions cut lemon fresh impressions as the
warder ignites a gas burner.
An Equinox relay: we make contact.
Inside our nuts, we promenade in straight lines.
On galley fray these linear platforms yield to her hood,
aching for a domestic filling: a DIY day, set for Drilling.
It’s key-time. The shaving mirrors perpetually display
seven seconds to Sunday, delirium sleep is probable, if not
certain of all fictions.
E-mail black-spots arrive in the post, orders, going dark in
encrypted scullery lockers.
Complex sex – le petite morte, her cum face is disfigured:
an affinity is raw-meat on gorge. Fixing death to old masks
and casual cadavers,
utensil regulators ration her chattering obscurities.
John the strangulator accelerates peak squirt timing,
drowning plants embedded, bogged in remembrance fields:
muck and gore lovers, holy units trudge
under cold covers.
Our Carnal cuisine is a mire of sheet camouflage
Lightening’s judder teeth beneath the sheets. Comprehending a
wishbone,
torn-in-two separate cuttings. Oven doors slam shut.
Inside me, then into you, a sullied golden throne.
I mourn our mess, the human depletion; waste dispose, repose
–
unknown.
My grit could bud in a split second, given half a chance,
my disordered seed could spill over the edge of any silver
table spoon-
full of prospective flesh cables, a non de ploom of seamen
clots on pretty tables.
Broken hearts and baby shambles trickle down the inside line
of bandy legs:
unwanted Bambi buckling in the woods. Cylinder pistons compel
E motion.
Her adoration engine is driven thin by honey tipped bullet
clips, ejected
With hardcore human heat into menstrual meres bubbling White
cells scatter,
‘man on the floor!’ . Female detainees,
It’s all very PC –
BS.
Tight-knit wet-rooms cramp G-spot fingers.
Olive spat, whale fat, fat of the goose. Our lips link lies
for peace, let loose.
This temporal war of words snuffing out pip-squeak pilot
lights. I can smell a gas leak.
‘In waking there is
space less dark’, she whispers: and then –
Synthetic flask
disregard
On Sunday bombs along
Chromosome child
colonnade
A Christian song gone
wrong
Blind eyes sling kiloton shapes to the wall.
Holding hands, we shelter from the leaf-fall,
while saints-row fledglings fall out, once and for all
converging sunspecs devout : Christ-rays. You entice lace.
Collecting tender spasms into a wood cup encased.
You shave and I
kiss you there.
Our disclosure can be nothing, if not sour.
Emulsion coats feathered by stir-fried hairs: ‘did you check
the gas?’
It's over now and a bucket on either side; cat gut lead
weight pendulum swings
I'm drifting into thin. I'm dripping into tin.
Cold steel kisses this anti-man:
It’s over now –
I am lemon fresh
again.
holy crap.
ReplyDeletewow, so much here...love this
"complex sex
le petite morte
her cum face mutilated"
and this
"Our Carnal cuisine camouflage
We judder beneath sheets."
and this...
"and I kiss you
there
our disclosure
can be nothing if not sour"
what a structure you build with your poems.
steamy write man...you shave and i kiss you there...i might have held my breath...oh joy now i must go to work for a bit...perhaps a littleless than lemon fresh...
ReplyDeleteThe gas leak motif very well played, as is the more understated Sunday one, the push pull, the degrade of emotion, and of self, all vivid. And the spoken along with the written word make for a chilling totality of experience..the play on rays/raise --well I could go on, but I'd be quoting the whole thing back to you. Excellent stuff, Arron.
ReplyDeleteGoosebumps. You gave me goosebumps and made my already off-beat heart stutter.
ReplyDeleteTin and lemons... I may avoid my kitchen until I can enter it without sensing a morgue. (She sits, silently stunned, then shakes it off as she imagines a man on the floor)
Seriously dark, dipping into entrails and scrawling poetry into stainless. Excellent, Arron.
Beth
Wow you went all steamy today, for your dverse play, yet in your own way, shining through the dark with a sliver of light at your bay.
ReplyDeletecat gut..nice..haha
Arron, I always find my heart beating faster as I read here. I think I sometimes hold my breath without realizing, too. There are so many lines here that stick to the soul. Dark, intense, amazing.
ReplyDeleteWell, Aaron, you certainly weave a tightly threaded pattern in this deep tapestry that you have woven...makes my synapses snap more than ususal! Good show and I really enjoyed your depth!
ReplyDeleteAfter that and contemplating it, I'm sure that, "delirium sleep is probable..."
Thanks for sharing mate!
Roger ☺
Ah Love. I could sniff a dozen tubes of its glue (that gas leak!) and still be on my feet, dizzy and shouting Yes. - Brendan
ReplyDeleteAaron, you are INCREDIBLE. your work is mad inspiring to me.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! What a write, and your reading it bought it all so alive, just simply amazing talent!
ReplyDeleteOh, my! Arron this is painful! Why anti-man, though? I think this is the most a human being can be. It's vulnerable, coupled with love, lost in so many other things before death...
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard the reading, yet. I look forward to it :)
in waking there is space less dark –
ReplyDeleteshe whispers
and then… i was carefully balancing on the tapestry of darkness and sex you wove and tried not to fall into your words as i suspected it's going deeper and deeper...and it was and i fell - and it was excellent
Dude, when I first started watching the video I kept thinking you looked like Tom Bakker(my fav doc who) and as you read I got so excited, your refferences are brilliant....
ReplyDeletemy fav read of tonight :)
This pulled me right in. reminds me something of ee cummings for some damn reason.
ReplyDeleteGreat forward drive. the energy here is palatable.
Lady Nyo
I'm with the young Ezra Pound: a poem should never be far removed from song. Your video clip demonstrates this perfectly. Your rendition accentuated the natural rhythm, which in turn drags the emotions deeper into the experience. Very impressive performance.
ReplyDeleteI loved your video, in my humble opinion you are improving as a reader. My superlative for you tonight: a plasma fire from within, no hope of extinction. Fully alive verse; impressive as ever.
ReplyDeleteArron, I know this is good. Then, why am I so tired after reading it--twice? So much here, man. Yes--MAN...on the floor!
ReplyDeleteArron, this is just awesome. The reading blows me away...much more enjoyable to hear this one read because we hear where you pause and emphasize the words. My favorite part in the reading is 'Female detainees- very PC, BS' something about that line...of course I thought it was all engaging. Won't begin to point out stand out lines here...as always there is an abundance of them. Love the way that you've blacked everything out on the blog for this one...really works well with/adds to the effect of your recording.
ReplyDeleteDark...intense...steamy...so much here, great!
ReplyDeletei liked reading along while you recited the piece. you bring a pace and voice to it that really brings is alive. nice side to side ad-lib:)
ReplyDeleteWow... quite erotic and raw, intense, lascivious... (clears throat) I like it.
ReplyDelete~laurie
Arron, excellent write. Definitely lot to linger upon here. The sexuality is ripe for sure in here, but seems to be much more hidden beneath, will have to review again later, as I'm sure there is certainly more. The video was well-done, love the alterations you did for the "live" version, a bit of a remix, edit etc.. here and there. As usual you impress the heck out of me with your work. Thanks for the read and the view. Happy Open Link Night
ReplyDeleteI like the video read.. your eyes, voice and dramatic pauses... gives me the chills.
ReplyDeleteSuperb share....whew ~
The only thing missing from this is the sign "Genius at Work" What a compelling piece! The imagry here is stamped in my brain. Something to return to again and again. Ya' gave me chills. Need help cleaning that kitchen? Thanks for the thrill! Write on!
ReplyDeletegreat job as always, arron.
ReplyDeleteA darkly intense piece. Right on the times tho. Brilliant piece.
ReplyDeletea total package of raw art. luved the tube play, the words, the many on many images, the creativity, the voice, and commentary you won't hear on the evening news. excellente.
ReplyDelete.. a wrench and jolt pendulum... your poetry raches parts of me I didn't know were there.. mesmerising performance Arron.. new dimensions thrown into the broth...
ReplyDeleteYou read and act how I imagine Dickens did the night he died after reading the part of Bill Sykes. Your come face at the end seals your performance, in every sense.
ReplyDelete"judder" - I wonder why I don't see that word more often, it's a good one. Your reading/performance is outstanding. Your reading "let's have some fun" made a deep impact on me, and I'm sure this will too. Your new profile pic is great, too. (I'm talking about everything but the poetry, I guess, but I can't claim to have a clear understand of what you're doing.)
ReplyDeleteOh Arron - where to begin.
ReplyDeletethis is so perfectly crafted - you have so many images that reach out to smack you in the face with their starkness - I love this one. ;)
Oh man. Dark, reaching, epic, gritty, raw, brilliant in places. Word-use and general phrasing stellar as the norm and the video brings it to life. Excellent recital. Haunting. I keep wanting to say 'could have been a little shorter' with your pieces but when I really engage with most of them, I find there isn't much I'd cut away. It's all prime meat here. I do think though that there's a difference between what's absolutely necessary to the Narrative (and to keeping the poetry of it intact), and more of what sounds great and is brilliantly written. When poems get to a certain length you have to start asking these questions more and more. There is power in brevity and perhaps you might reach even greater heights with some of your longer pieces by pulling out the scalpel.
ReplyDeleteExcellent Arron
So many great images, terrific to hear the flow.
ReplyDeleteeloquent words.
ReplyDeletewow.
this is incredible.
ReplyDeleteglad to read you and love your blog.
welcome sharing your poetry with us today,
first time participants can do free linking up to 3 poems, you can write for our challenge if you want to, no obligations, we are open until Thursday night, 8pm…
hope to see you in.
keep up the excellence.
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