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Langworthy
By Richard Mather Fog wraps round chimneys stacked in brown brick, settles on satellite dishes. Apparitional smog irritates the eyes,...
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Languages are outposts on the outskirts of being
By Richard Mather Languages are outposts on the outskirts of being. By voice and by text we perform raids on being, but we find it...
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Lamech’s revelation
By Richard Mather Lord, I have seen the inner workings of man and I am afraid. Poor and pathetic: he is corrupted from the start, living...
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J'accuse!
By Richard Mather It is I Who caused the banks to collapse It is I Who caused that car to mount the pavement It is I Who destroyed the...
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It is so sad / the way things end
By Richard Mather It is so sad the way things end like a when a plant dies and dies in a black corner and you’re done for. It is over...
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Interregnum
By Richard Mather ... and Cartesians on foot from Carlisle to Canterbury for a conference on what it means to be a xenophobe in a secular...
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in your eyes, the sun
By Richard Mather in your eyes, the sun is dazzling white, the wind shifts your scarf, blows through the gaps of your coat. for me,...
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Image, idol, dream
By Richard Mather Abraham prepared a table before me Even as I spoke harshly of the desert’s hot kisses. He moistened my head with oil....
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Hog-squeal of the universe
By Richard Mather Hog-squeal of the universe, horrid sublime (of suffering), divine zip line, the Event , Nietzsche’s vertical / Foucault...
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Histoire
By Richard Mather here we are (1) sitting in a circle transmitting silences to each other and waiting (+1) for beginning to announce its...
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God’s cloak
By Richard Mather God’s cloak black inside outside tectonic plates oceans beautifully stitched
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God is not / some detached thing
By Richard Mather God is not some detached thing, but rather participation- in-the-evolving-world. God is non- determining,...
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Garden of chemical scum
By Richard Mather Alien eyes fix on the bricks and bottles, on crisp packets, used condoms, dirty knickers, chewed chicken bones and cold...
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French horns, the length of METAPHORS
By Richard Mather French horns, the length of METAPHORS, playing in the dark And I am still thinking We ask her what she thinks as she...
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First Sentence
By Richard Mather I cannot remember my first word, But I do recall my first sentence: Cribbed in a box with the lid on, Kept under house...
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Exodus 20:21
By Richard Mather ‘Moses approached the thick darkness where God was’ — (Exodus 20:21) God is the black chasm at the heart of the...
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Embodiment
By Richard Mather The eye looks, the ear waits, the head turns, the heart aches, the lung breathes, the hand gropes. Skull! cerebral...
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Ecophagy
By Richard Mather I The Argument God was striding the heavens when a snake emerged from a bone black gap between the wet green grasses....
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Drive
By Richard Mather Let us drive, you and I, to a hotel in the city. Turn the radio on and let the landscape fly. Let the apple boughs sway...
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Do not murder
By Richard Mather After creating the heavens and the earth God vanished from the cosmos, leaving only a trace of Himself in the concept...
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