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The Sleepers and the Dreams
By Richard Mather Dreams like girls in private rooms beckon from windows the souls of sleepers who move shadelike through night’s dark...
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Spandrels
By Richard Mather I woke up to find that they’d really put the man in salamander If god wishes for a salhumander, Then he will produce...
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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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Being Flat: Apartment 1a
By Richard Mather Refrigerator, baby, shoelace, moth, quarks, ceiling, “background,” sink, magazine, sieve, “environment,” pencil,...
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Artful
By Richard Mather Agaze, the artist is beset by eros Of no vulgar kind. Crossing the chorismos, He takes his tools, kneads and forms And...
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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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A Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice
By Richard Mather And so the gods of lead and brass, The idols and their thrones, The teraphim made of fibreglass The mummified skulls...
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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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Thinking Thoughts (page c)
By Richard Mather A man is thinking to himself – but where in himself is he thinking? * Thinking is a tool or operation that presupposes...
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Thinking Thoughts (continued)
By Richard Mather That evil demon in your head is the machine that thinks – digital organ running serial algorithm. “One & one is two. Is...
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Thinking Thoughts
By Richard Mather No stable ground for thinking thoughts, whose vibrations bring, to the human skull, calamitous feelings. * Needful of...
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Thinking Therefore I Am
By Richard Mather Seeing this house, that tree, the sky – my experience is already in accord with certain classes of thought*. World...
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Thingification
By Richard Mather Fixed to its being by the name I give it, I turn what was pliable and sticky Into something reified, a thing. Nouns...
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The Principle of Insufficient Reason
By Richard Mather I am isn’t grounded By your principle Of sufficient reason. There is no bedrock On which I am turns its spade. There is...
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Simulation (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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Lifting Up of the Hands
By Richard Mather By lamp and by oil, we hunger the hours as the dusk's frost sets in. There is time: The trucks to Treblinka are not...
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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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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 cosmos,...
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A Code of Nature with a Subject
By Richard Mather Once a code of nature without a subject, Now: language tongue, la, signifying illness, la, A foreign verb linked to...
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Everything Adds up to Zero
By Richard Mather This means a stationary object stays equal. And the object remains in the same state of motion force. The resultant...
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