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This poem was first published in Make Your Mark, Issue 7, March 2015
Subsequently published in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books, December 2017
Tag: 2015
Homeless
I am a thing / not a thing
elevated to the status
of object / product
a float between what
you’ve seen / thought you saw
. / ignored
the error of our ways
is the tragedy of our days
how long until O becomes Q
until the realisation gains a tail
& the question of de-evolution
is reconsidered by apes
on a production line
look, squatted in a shopfront
under discoloured blankets
the disgrace of our lives
thrown from the line
I am a thing / not a thing
Published in Page Seventeen, Issue 12, November 2015
Published in The Frequency of God, Close-Up Books, December 2017
Smalahove
A semi-found poem based on the OECD Studies on Tourism and the Tourism Experience: The OECD-Korea Workshop[1] taken from the article ‘tis the season for a serving of sheep’s head? posted on dangerous minds[2]
burn away the wool from the head
leave the skin intact & brown
split the head into halves by axe
remove the organs but the eye & tongue
clean, salt, & dry for days
then smoulder on a cold smoke
of juniper, dry oak or alder
having been both salted & smoked
the head could be preserved in an airy place for months
to serve the dish
water & steam the head for three hours
then present with stewed Swedish turnips
& potatoes boiled in the skin
First published in Tincture Journal, November, 2015
[1] OECD Studies on Tourism and the Tourism Experience: The OECD-Korea Workshop, OECD Publishing 2012, ISBN 978-9264171923
[2] http://dangerousminds.net/comments/a_serving_of_sheeps_head
Mark William Jackson by Rollie Ann Serrano
the story is in the supporting elements
not the subject
the spent cork
the seashell ashtray
red wine in champagne crystal
and blurred in the background
a small Christmas tree
Don’t Think Too Much
Don’t Think Too Much
don’t think toom uch.
