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Circling
By Richard Mather We move in circles around each other, encircled and encompassing, each turn driven in part by our own will to move and...
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God’s Entropy (short version)
God's Entropy (short version)
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From Creator to Creature
By Richard Mather After the birds and mammals lost their speech (the serpent's tongue having already turned to ash) and Heaven swayed and...
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Marvell’s Bermudas
By Richard Mather Selected images stand as themselves: not in a living but in an enamelled world -- Raymond Williams A godly remnant in...
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Zero and the Anti-Dollar
By Richard Mather Zero sat still with the anti-dollar in his scarred palms. The war had begun and the fear was flying through the air...
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Zero Agonistes
By Richard Mather “Zero” -- he of the failed harvest and wormish incarnation --, Has declared war on heaven. It is his special election....
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Zechariah
By Richard Mather The brickwork is broken, Gardens are in disarray, The iron gates swing free from their hinges, Rain sings in the...
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Words
By Richard Mather What are these things before me That come into shape? Do not ask And I will not have to answer. Weird creatures that...
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What Must Be Said (paragraph version)
By Richard Mather I God was walking in the heavens when a snake in the graSS emerged from his cave to seduce the world. “I have something...
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What Must Be Said
By Richard Mather I God was walking in the heavens when a snake in the graSS emerged from his cave to seduce the world. “I have something...
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Warning Sign
By Richard Mather Derivatives and ineffective diphthongs. A sleeper cell, arrestedly. Love marches embattled, leads to establishment....
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Under the World
By Richard Mather A frog descended eighty-six radical steps to the devil’s loch. There the heron brooded at the water’s edge and the...
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Two Fragments
By Richard Mather i The wreck, 2004 Pieces of boat float on the water. A cargo of hands and heads go unrecognised. Camera crews walk on...
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Tree, 1943
By Richard Mather My roots are split & my bone-bare branches brittle. I degenerate in a cruciformed landscape. There are many like me....
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To Spinoza
By Richard Mather nomads we traverse a flat shimmering world breeding images. signs & erratic/ erotic encounters; surfaces effacing...
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Through the looking glass
By Richard Mather “Observe this fagged-out world, this patch of chemical scum, where things – people, cats, tables, nouns, quarks – are...
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Theory
By Richard Mather ‘The fact of the matter is that we must acknowledge that in the last resort there is no theory.’ And in the first...
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The Humanzee
By Richard Mather Doctor Frank Ahab, host to a crowd of forty souls, walks in a stately manner through the upper rooms of his...
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The wreck
By Richard Mather Pieces of boat float on the water. A cargo of hands and heads go unrecognised. Camera crews walk on eggshell lives,...
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The wandering Jesu
By Richard Mather Coming down from the cross, Naked and bloodied, He picks up a tattered shawl, Places it round his shoulders, Imagines...
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