all my seas aren’t yours
liverwinds kindazzle up my coastal dreams - grossgrog bulkram bustywater the sea and other animals should not be teased your mid feather your oyster egg wrackwinds bladder up my central city soul - mournfly melancholic memor- besides the I do sea a childflood of olive oil love slapped on barefaced paddles lapping mid 50’s fall out Windscale leaks radioact up pepperminted rock ’pool written all the way through illuminations g-flowered in the dark xstream sentimentality is the trump card of capitalists
to be born without
the shipping forecast spelting through my mid ship-mind shadowing deep death at dinner time and tea is to be only half born your mid exquisite wave your ovulating crest lost in sandmares - wonderworld sees worryworld in a grain Lisboa
The Wrong Boat Traversing the Tagus in a totally wrong rose steeped in hermetically sealed Pyrex without dishiness or sails without oh-err-mrs bumpz and liltz Riding in the back of an infernal Sea Cat cooped up and close wi Nick Cave & K. Minogue - tiny little thing - in yer face blasting faulty murther ballads (we blank-eyed the wet proof video water beyond the doubled-glazed glass shell) our withering was a system without weather caught in a one way ticket across the premature Styx d-d-d-d-d-dey-call
d-d-d-d-d-dey—call dddd m-me ddd the skin on our skin turning sardine sans silver gathering smell without sea or sin d-d-d-dwild
d-d-d-dewild murderous to the soul is a faulty sound system trapped in a trapped space rr-rr-rr-rr-rr-o-o-ose
murderous to women & giggly girls are faulty men in a trapped excuse they call me the wild rose but my name is just my name cor de rosa her lips were the colour of roses. bacalhau cor de rosa stains the sky cor de rosa bacalhau they call me the wild rose cod ballads where the wild roses grow between her name is just her name between her cor de rosa we kissed goodbye all beauty must die on the last day between her her between her rosa cor de rosa drowning teeth and fins |
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geraldinemonk was born
in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since the late 1970s her
poetry has been published in many anthologies, most recently appearing
in the Anthology of 20th Century British and Irish Poetry (ed
Keith Tuma, American Oxford). She is currently a co-publisher of West
House Books with Alan Halsey.
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