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Discourse in the garden
By Richard Mather An olive grove. Night. The sound of approaching footsteps. SOCRATES: ‘Swounds! A dark day for strong flowers and cool...
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Der Aufklärer (slimline version)
By Richard Mather He watched her Take a piss, Using An online Camera secreted In the toilet pan. She wiped herself Back to front, The...
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Der Aufklärer
By Richard Mather Be natural! But how if one happens to be "unnatural"? – Nietzsche, Will to Power #66 ...for how should man force nature...
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Death on the Pennines
By Richard Mather To live at this hour beneath the cold Pennines sun requires the dead hills to flow behind us. To see the mighty crow...
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Deansgate, 4 a.m.
By Richard Mather The moon appeared to float on a skein of black water and a wind sang a high pitch B, 246.94 Hertz. And something else –...
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Crux
By Richard Mather I am a body of sin bent beneath the Jerusalem sun. Sin is in my heart and mouth, my hair and my breath. And as I climb...
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Creature
By Richard Mather “I woke up to find They’d really put the man in salamander… But if God wanted a salhumander He would have done so… Let...
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Contraction
By Richard Mather After the fusion of blood and tree, I descended, the voice of derision singing in my ears, past the wet-green eyes of...
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Complaint
By Richard Mather Every time I come over my original sin quickens in the veins. My heart tells me I am guilty for not doing more to...
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Buried beneath the newsprint
By Richard Mather It was only when Snake Emerged from a black hole Between Mecca & Medina That God saw the problem. Speaking from the...
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Beneath
By Richard Mather Beneath a red lightbulb innumerable doves swim as if in a cold, gold sun. Birth, creation, a ruinous origination....
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Beneath the hollow rock
By Richard Mather It is dark. And cold. Now I shiver. But I am calm. And now it has begun. Despite the waiting. I am past caring. It is...
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Being flat: Apartment 1a
By Richard Mather Refrigerator, baby, shoelace, moth, quarks, ceiling, “background,” sink, magazine, sieve, “environment,” pencil,...
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Ba’al T’qiah
By Richard Mather A storm wind comes from the hidden north filling my mouth, my lungs, with dust and sand from Sinai. Then a great cloud...
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Aquarius
By Richard Mather So the roots of plants, trees, arteries, sewers, nervous systems, run down to the shore of the river, which uncoils...
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Apollo
By Richard Mather I I am bright Apollo, Dreamer of lines and surfaces, Of clean and precise things, Of machine, statue, and structure,...
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Apocalypse
By Richard Mather “Quid si nunc cœlum ruat?” Welcome to the swaying statue of Our Lady of Tomorrow. If you want, you can shoot the...
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Apeiron
By Richard Mather beginning; ur-reality: eternal, infinite, boundless, indefinite; yielding every thing through the actions of opposites:...
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Angling
By Richard Mather from eternity to eternity to eternity Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29, discovered 1897, Pennsylvania If a straight line be cut...
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An Idle King
By Richard Mather I am an idle king, a hollow king With the wind and sea at my back, Whose shade walks among the dread bones of Hades. My...
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