Ring Shout

1.

Why he should begin with discussion of the end
makes preposterous the notes on intermittent crying

These days I feel much more comfortable
The springs are fully wound when the curtain goes up
Any disturbance of balance is surely illness
Pendant to Crime and Punishment
against the endemic disease of romantic love
as the basis of marriage

The crime which was destroying
the man in him filtered into any bonds
between them rotted them
She wanted to be free from herself,

to think and make her own and never need
assistance to get straight.

2.

Wound blots recede as
pain latches
and dampness sustains encoding
categories of decay match a confidence
trick below intelligence
A group of loners build from
the rubble until a garden wall
is evident. It marks the millennium
It doesn’t mark anything
Drawings on the wall map out a planetary
sequence beyond this one breaks the
pressure of exactness or completion.
Another geometry will be needed.
Let’s not say that. Mark out consciousness
in a constellation map overlapping another
Two women walk by with antlered headwear
partly a result of last week’s storm
Pinch-me crossed the Park collecting snake skins
The lovers ignore this eat toadstools
and lichen. The air is full of yellow
moths and fill the mouths of those in
exercise or copulation
up to her knees in fern fronds
on his back out of view red and yellow
in the green lush, insects and humans
red ants and naked wood rot
before the wind lifts before the cloud shifts
Another wreckage more slavery instant repetition.

3.

He downloads Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience
as a therapy, shifting each narrowed text
Presentational immediacy arises
from the integration of a strain-feeling
and a physical purpose

We are both in pain
perhaps reasons are complexly different
Both ranges of reasons are human
She is very beautiful the way
she considers
I hardly ever weep now
It takes fifty years to make a man

When so much you have loved torn from you
and you expect to remain the same.

4.

Her small feet lift onto the rest bar
palms on knees under the occasional
watch the screen reintegrate defined
squiffiness where without exception
the utopians share the conviction
that all people, regardless of situation
bow their knee before a single moral order
driven to escape the present in future refuge
where Europeans became convinced of their
superiority using a synthesis of circular and linear
temporal myths combined with ideas of a parallel
dimension known as the confidence trap
She lifts her hands onto the keyboard
plays the last bars of Le Banquet Céleste

5.

On a moderately hilly lowland
marked either side by hills and in the south
by a river she bends over a torn epiphytic lichen
resting on the heavy, close textured loamy soil
of a marl partly concealed by an orchard of perry pears
in an April rain shadow the puzzle posed related to
the presence of Lobaria pulmonaria away from limestone
and in isolation from another plant startled
by the presence of another animal shocked
into amusement at surprise in ice movement wilted
bower larks wither hide or fill the mouth sigh a quiver
he sends beneath this shorn certain din invests in the gravity,
lost flexed balmy toil revealed before an orchid of pearls
in showers sweet the difficulty posed by asking

6.

If I have achieved nothing
positive, at least I hold
to the belief that a truth
does exist, and that it
is within my power
to find it face it down on
red sandstone imprint denture
and sound made visible
each shift in image pressure
as it hardens and is given
sequence shifts of impressions
temporal phase space for
each article each vowel
until simply air dry on the surface

7.

Sounds on the tape record
the recorder’s action beyond
alternating bands of dark magnetite
and light silicates propose complex
microlife 3,500 million years ago.
Lee Morgan lives with
Freddie Hubbard in the night
of the cookers and Grachan
Moncur’s Evolution
quarrel with sense-perceptions

Resolution in excess to system
a hyperacuity reserved for angels and machines
Honour and justice based on pleasant
distinctions of product and production.

8.

Thighs end strain bend switch
Gyrations rim digressions in a grim age
roaring escapable muds rim-testing the sod
of a barging roster screwed to the new roarplate
another motorboard rattling the screen-ledge, dog-cronic.

Sonic hedgehog gene patterning
of notochord, floorplate of neural tube
and posterior margin of tetrapod limb buds,
capable of mirror-image limb-digit duplications
which extend to the brain and eyes.

The bereft felt from a Hay diet
relaxing into once lost sexual appetites
kites and apples complex frost, once faxing
the riot day from the spelt relief

9.

We speak of where we are
at once with the state of the planet
To some this is the spiritual view
to us this is a necessary undertaking
The land mines
manufactured across the way
sold and encouraged
Every jar of Gentleman’s Relish
Banned from the SAS annual dinner
Does freak of weary scar
At front withers the cranium soto planned it
To hum wish theory spirals spew
to truss this a neck varied thunder raking
The lame minds guerrilla factured across the way

10.

Fluxus is for you the young
but young is you’re not young
life reverses near the pain
what pain life is a pain
no it’s not

life is like a cattle drum you mean kettle
drum yes and hum drum
derange issues of progress
the whole contention that pop-up
philosophy doesn’t progress – art doesn’t –

oh but science does looks frail from here
spontaneity on a prepared trampoline
irritations and scratches means
replace aesthetics with anaesthesia

11.

Intelligence disturbs common ground
combining sense with spiritual cue
discuss on a fence verge Roman through-
way ground redenying wither true

in any case how can it be
what you think this is boy
I have lightning milk acerbic crave
I have shaky juice in a cave of wrenches
what you think crispy destroys
brave sighting silk absurd rave-tronics
yav salt cake loose in your roller ring
in every spacetime tremble free

vibrations dulled on a syrup tongue
no youth here now beyond a blaw tread knee

12.

Love and progress
driven by misconceptions
the burglar effect unreliable
facts in human affairs
do not give principles for truth
criteria consistent
with our own fallibility
mental constructs and institutions
glass blocks of highly transparent waste
irradiated nuclear truth
the ultimate fuel ingrained
in our misconceptions

You stand at the edge of a millennium
watch sun rise drop on the ocean

13.

As the money is not owed
facial shape advances
serves to flatter profits
Depth distance from eyebrows to nostrils
will have to be restated
Skin and hair tone
does not represent cash owing
personality or image

Justice cash never received
Five times more galaxies than previously thought
will run off the balance sheet value

Any future cash reimbursements
will have to be paid out in galaxy
added to galaxy collision

14.

A terrible sense of completion
frame of a lake against
a field of cars
hand washed and leathered
the geometry generator
of wasteland epistemologically
and culturally united understanding

Refined togetherness
of sustained thinking
a topological neg-entropy
machined and ionised
netted against perception
frayed river break
a terrific exhaustion before stopping.

15.

Devout speed of a raunchy
letter spray font beer
repass constructed reach cover
railings crawl visual
what was required
in order to   do that   and they say
would have an incentive
pass it on to each other
Let me away from here
without need of motor launch
should basil render
to smoulder   crack   away
inturgescence of drupaceous plum
beneath upright posture ultimatum.

16.

Between the figures of Adam & Eve
how individual cells know
what to become how they resemble
appear in a fiery Gulph
a Hox gene cluster
descending from fire
determinate body plans and axes
Told his friend of intentions
to celebrate by sharing a glass
of juice transformed into wine
with a pretty strange fellow
whose path often crossed in the course
of a journey In Eternity one Thing
never Changes into another Thing

17.

Chairs in the wind on their sides
in the garden a blown blackcap
corrects functional stupidity
feeding downside-up without
evolutionary flare or prediction
of the matter’s bionomics
written out in a prison house
with potassium manganate
on pieces of cement sack
convinced by the argument
that ethologies between different
species correlate
across a tropical plateau of
now you win now you don’t

18.

The first analysis of a hypothetical object
blue shifts the discussion towards purist
and isolationist adolescent fauna
trapped in warning a cycle it takes
strong nerve to read contamination futures
written in rubidium from Prussian carnallite salt
with silvery-white strontium pulled from
sky blue celestine and mineral springs
supped by beetles and child

Risk assessment and management
in the cups of withered wings and hands
exposed wonder and monitored
worry   without action   only recognition of
the way toxins affect brain function.

19.

The burden of personality
dissolves into timeless
contemplation of
the next cocktail
left incomplete

The second analysis used
samarium in brownish black allanite with
rare earth neodymium in reddish monazite
solitary as glass amplifies light and dark
simultaneously traps circadian rhythm
or transients in photosynthesis sustained
oscillations in the splitting of glucose
a bionecessity to understand failure recurs
Please don’t hurt me

20.

Explosions are instantaneous clouds
obliterate the moment of transformation
The third analysis used
grey uranium from blackish pitchblende
hard with cold deceit turned brown on the raft
the body of Delacroix dated against
blue-grey lead on the surface of Anselm Kiefer’s
wood rot heavy squat fluid motions
crossing ground quakes beneath the
extreme unstoppable force and power
of caterpillar tracks and complex suspension
Shrapnel ghost growth pressures to reduce
carbon emissions
or cut temperature and storm damage

21.

You want to inhibit my spacetime
you join a rich roast of fireweeds
and carbohydrates.
The antlered men stamp into a
field of tulips to gather material
This is not the last robbery
Drenched light moves through the rain storm
hits a conference a wrestling match
a hundred and more ants ascend from the
boiler well
1910 becomes 1985 continues territorial raids
Watch this, watch this! and the stick breaks
The city surrounds us and demands
river mist symmetries.

22.

Norms of devastation, civilised
Oak birds storm at each other
One year has passed
Boisterousness does not name it.

Analysis links particular conditions to
a continental malaise
maybe it’s larger than that.
Disruption begins to be the habit rather
than its subversion
Anarchism is part of the tradition
Listening carefully perception misses
insect feet but combines flies and
oak birds with a distant aircraft
Displacement of the natural continues
to lead to confirmation
Kids wearing oak twigs imitate the park deer
Illusions of judgement and truth remain traps
in long grass
A recording of wind in oaks and aircraft
shifts oxygen into energy
You want to fuck me but I’m the meadow
the larks play with my dead breast
Too many deep caverns drilled by implosions
of the Will. Gentleman’s reliques
All that fuss about doubt and ecstasy.
Devastation’s over in a rope cast
slung around jars of intoxicants
now full of funeral ash.

23.

Ecodamage reifies poetic strain
fail hurts but remains necessary
rusty yurt in an iron cup pathetic
that retromanagement deifies

Train ethic defies metro arrangement
investiary detains strut thoughts rail
dialectic cusp ironic inturn robustly
describes electro-ranges scratch