EXPERIMENTS ON A

MONETARIST LANDSCAPE /

ANNIHILATING ANGEL

1:32:25
wrapping myself
drunk
round the toilet
&
going to sleep

2:10:09
while I sleep
sandstorms on Venus
gouge holes in
the surface
of sound

2:39:46
waking
to find
glow-worms
beneath
the rim of
your eyes,
&
England
in flame
from
end to end

3:02:11
sleep,
dreams coming
like radio tunings
in a speeding car
threading a web
of underpasses
in a city
of flame

3:33:52
waking from
Martian cities,
opal obelisks,
sea defences breaching,
& a voice
in my head
telling
‘paint fire
as though
you’ve become
fire itself’

3:52:33
I listen
to your skin pop,
now we’re part
of a filmic process
that’s lost
in a
CGi animé,
these are frames
without horizon,
this is a
new agenda
for neo-spatial
awareness,
&
the
annihilating angel
is igniting
your eyes

4:02:21
we burn,
I make
your body burn
as though
we’re fire itself,
until the
glow-worms
beneath
your eyes
explode



Published in collections:
‘POWER LINES’ Unibird Publications (UK – October 1988)
‘NARCOPOLIS AND OTHER POEMS’ Hell’s Kitchen Prod. Anthology: edit Peggy Nadramia (USA – November 1989)
‘RHYSLING ANTHOLOGY 1990: NOMINATION FOR AWARDS’ (USA – July 1990)