tugging at the leads, but painted in profile their thoughts
were a mystery. 2 men talked. One said ‘once I realised a
paradise wasn’t possible, the next I no longer cared.’ In his
time had executed many of the cavalries on reality, he
wanted everyone to know. Other held his hand, palm
upward; an administrator. People closed over, with
crooked arms”
16/12/15
“JAK faces both ways – to world outside + down into the
block, quiet there this Xmas, waits for train travelling
almost unimaginably fast, who transcript a tall, 2-faced
man that swings upon a handle.. ?life, or continued journey
on the train, back to surface of the cell, making new peace
+ war. To high transitional bow of song, revelry – written on
a protein. Then underworld again, back again to STAT”
23/12/15
“If the littoral excites, or kills, we ask why – wrecked on
island shore, lines of oilmen + flat coloured fish, barely
functional – did have to end this way? One day humans
unearth a beautiful girl in protean glass, who treat us as
new forms – gives food, elegant room to sleep. Poor
Crusoe only had an island, we add the sun! But function
of her salinity, led to horrors, all of us, is out – host all its tide”
30/12/15
“Perhaps it might not be possible to get him to come home,
at all to his gymnasium where everyone you’ve ever met or
known does work, + makes themselves longer, like they
were a foreign co. Roll up edifying machines, strange sea
apparatus, tapestry – there’s nothing there – apart from the
phrase of a body in peace. Why get back to that, like fish –
To illuminate, then read, in determination”
7/1/16
“Sma, greatest milk on earth, rich fats best for babies’ teeth,
hands – she’ll soon be grown, talking on thru a thin wood
door; saying ‘was an amateur, but now in sales, my back’s
robust, I cycle here.’ have the most beautiful strong dark
eyes, keep well mostly, but is a fathomlessness in my
chest – with no end.’ ‘?What was the name of the milk, that
allowed me to rise up – + so destroy my sense?’
14/1/16
“1st thing – no radio on, it’s dark – my bones knit, together
new bloods design in red, sinews quiet share, I cover. This
the young age. I collect my personality + memories torn to
pieces by sleep, join in mother, morning, passionate about
time + the face/Someone outside heard – broke in shouts,
cries indistinct – O princess. I whisper mechanically,
advantage is so abrupt”
20/1/16
“Man walks into a room, of course this is no room – it’s the
library, the world – but you’re wearied in it. Paintings,
clinical cases full of people getting out of great baths – just
art as Rembrandt said. Each 1 soaped in data, history, set
as amnion. + yr fat naked body climb on scanning
machine, good for soft tissue + context. Venus, the sea
water greviously replaced me – me! With the upregulating
hand!”
27/1/16
“Illuminated spontaneously, + together – an infant observes
me. On the ward, quite calm, forking his usual, spirit train
in the light. Which one am I? Hadn’t realised the
significance, how this kid would vindicate this, obvious
inflammation, sat there, quiet. I + him, who knows.
Composed of an essential whiteness. As overzealous, ill at
ease, I met him. Intelligible. Near lit his face – different to
heaven”
3/2/16
“Henry harmless, posthumous guy. When 1st met was
young, built like a house, busy in the street, a dancer. To
describe him now, where would be the end? Last he was
off, dissatisfied. No help, he said. I may be splendid, but
I’m out of time – a renting drifting cloud. Questions, not
physicality were the ruin of him. Wife stayed on, skilled in
art of falconry, archer. At the butts, never the weaker”
Note: JAK/STAT is a key entry protein sequence for many cellular reactions, SMA is a degenerative neurological condition.
Doug Jones was born in Romford and initially studied English at Warwick, he then completed an MPhil on the poet Bill Griffiths. While doing his MPhil he fell in with Bob Cobbing’s Writers Forum group – which was a huge influence. After college, he worked as a nurse in east London for many years and then as a doctor in Norfolk. He is married with 2 children and is currently working as a GP in Yarmouth. He has published two poetry books with Veer. Work has also appeared in datableed, VLAK and Zone – as well as a few other places.
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