2-
sing scar alack
impress of
memory/
stillness
cleft shadow of lightless
ah then
revert unto the none
or the balk of
speech
reclaimed dirt breaking
beneath the
hands
the severed wings of
(no)
asks of the
silenced sky’s obsolete
—
3-
bleed here or there
there or else
laughter
spliced
the shadow-line of it
marked
the breath of it
subtle as
shit smeared the eye
till laughter
dense
an empty room
it bleeds
it bleeds alack and all alone
—
17-
barbed/ blinded
subtle as a…
trace ever then the longing
till bask/
settled
bone break and the coloured
eye’s appeal
wishful to trace
(emptily)
sung lest
till redolent of
hand across mouth as of shadowing
breath till naught
or none
asking of the non hereafter
—
5-
in damage season
silt of the
fallen eye of it
subtle less than breath
asking
(concave or…
convex as…)
dreaming of the stark pageant
the pulse
out
struck out
in-dream of cleft sun light
—
16-
subtle then
(birth of…
…till naught of it)
unspoken all
what sung from drift afar unsung
nestling in dirt
till hollow absence
reclaimed
reclaimed
amber lights to touch
(and so it…)
settled to fall from sunderance
night
and the bone drift
of the blood/ (what bleed)
all sung/ aloft
Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His most recent work has appeared in ditch, Gobbet Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, Ygdrasil, Establishment, Carcinogenic Poetry, Primal Urge, A New Ulster, Slit Your Wrists, Turbulence Magazine, The Shwibly, Stride Magazine, Unlikely Stories: IV, Eratio 16, etc. A second full length collection, ‘Attributes‘, was published by ‘Desperanto’ in 2011. ‘Lapwing Publications, (Ireland), also published a collection of his poems, ‘The Non Herein’, in 2012 & The Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, (U.K), has recently released an ekphrastic book of text/ art, ‘Machinations‘, with Aad de Gids. He also has projects forthcoming from Quarter After Press…He edits Bone Orchard Poetry, a webzine of the bleak/ the dark/ the surreal and the experimental…
