{"id":6203,"date":"2021-01-30T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2021-10-23T13:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:24:22","slug":"peter-manson-four-poems-from-self-avoiding-space-filling-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6203\/peter-manson-four-poems-from-self-avoiding-space-filling-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Manson: Four Poems from ‘self-avoiding space-filling curve’"},"content":{"rendered":"

only horses cry<\/strong><\/p>\n

blinking arm rasher than intelligent scissors cup<\/p>\n

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bleeding out on proposed thumbnail skitters in the pink<\/p>\n

liminal flow reduced acetaminophen ears<\/p>\n

less bulbous ox concentrate gang of the rule of three<\/p>\n

thigh hiatus in lurid ego desolder pump<\/p>\n

walk it to mark and whine petals ovary over<\/p>\n

also vary overs as if i could challenge fact<\/p>\n

are you ready for the beach bodies aching on time<\/p>\n

in a pulse for crocus sold on the rising moodswing<\/p>\n

back to deferral of sentence rewilding the sign<\/p>\n

and repeat while home burns nightly restored unbalance<\/p>\n

knocking the fumes we were simply past embarrassment<\/p>\n

you and i know the calamitous cop for silence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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more fun with is<\/strong><\/p>\n

my most extreme self-consciousness has a leg in it<\/p>\n

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and is structured like a second language understood<\/p>\n

in parts when spoken slowly and more fully in print<\/p>\n

o companionable absence of a second leg<\/p>\n

from my inane flap now i am a kind of trousers<\/p>\n

wearing at all times an n95 stocking mask<\/p>\n

i rob the past confusing it and the leg with me<\/p>\n

above my head is much that would interest my leg<\/p>\n

my brow is still red from the kiss of the queen mother<\/p>\n

in my new i don’t do this i don’t do that poems<\/p>\n

shaking a loss-leader thigh gap to the sound of one<\/p>\n

high heel treading softly on my human ball my cock<\/p>\n

is in my pocket it is poems by iggy pop<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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willy\u2019s lyke-wake<\/strong><\/p>\n

i bought a soap dish that smells of condom lubricant<\/p>\n

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with a hey the cuddie o’er the kye et cetera<\/p>\n

and in that soap dish there was literally nothing<\/p>\n

fegs to the barn owl wrongly identified as such<\/p>\n

i sold a side plate with no inherent qualities<\/p>\n

the putative barn owl has carried my snood awa<\/p>\n

the buyer claimed it was blue and ebay sanctioned me<\/p>\n

i inherited a trivet and left it to you<\/p>\n

o bury my body in sussex my bi goshawk<\/p>\n

to bequeath unheated in its original box<\/p>\n

cremate my soul in red chernobyl mither mither<\/p>\n

as i sense you already did though what is unclear<\/p>\n

is the will to clarity\u00a0contested this plague year<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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a protestant with no mitochondria has been discovered living in the intestines of a chinchilla<\/strong><\/p>\n

in the unlikely event of landing in a glass<\/p>\n

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of water outside stevenage you will not have died<\/p>\n

so early and often as in our impatient dreams<\/p>\n

to be alone without you\u00a0in the\u00a0vantablack stage<\/p>\n

of grief is the true beginning of marketable<\/p>\n

my pea-green uninterruptible selling point blank<\/p>\n

as a magic tablet set up on a molehill crest<\/p>\n

to command the half-time chiasmus of our pronouns<\/p>\n

the socialised distance\u00a0is going in for a hug<\/p>\n

you pull out of the hug too soon but it\u2019s still going<\/p>\n

every pressure point a prayer a station of the hug<\/p>\n

bent on convincing itself you\u2019re real afraid it won\u2019t<\/p>\n

get to hug you again and eventually it can\u2019t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Peter Manson lives in Glasgow. His books include Poems of Frank Rupture<\/em> (Sancho Panza Press), English in Mallarm\u00e9<\/em> (Blart Books), Adjunct: an Undigest<\/em> and For the Good of Liars<\/em> (both from Barque) and Between Cup and Lip<\/em> (Miami University Press, Ohio). Miami UP also publish his book of translations, St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9: The Poems in Verse<\/em>. Most recent pamphlets are Factitious airs<\/em> (Zarf Books) and Windsuckers & Onsetters: SONNOTS for Griffiths<\/em>, a collaborative book written with the poet Mendoza (Materials Press). petermanson.wordpress.com for more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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