Poem: 'With Acknowledgements To 'The Observer Colour Supplement' And To Jeff Nuttall

WITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

TO THE ‘OBSERVER COLOUR SUPPLEMENT’ AND 

TO JEFF NUTTALL 

winged slit
on a breeze from Mongolia

beaked cleft
with agate eyes of
sweat-drip
and shimmering campaigns

celandine aperture
tousle-gaping with
worms of black obsidian
with tiny mouths that
gasp and heave
like air-drowned eels

the horizontal smiles
of architects dreams
befugged by dreaming similes
of yellow pollen horizons
hazed with aphrodisiac pollution,
sticky with tactile nodules
striding dramatically from oblivion
like small septuagenarian
politicians

quivering crevice athrob
with the unprecedented riot of
100,000 people angry
with the aftermath of
spontaneous eruption

O winged slit
on a breeze from Mongolia
I’ve drunk of your wine,
I’m left drunk under
your plethora of
foliage


Published in:
‘AMBIT no.81’ (UK – March 1980)