2-<\/p>\n
sing scar alack
\nimpress of<\/p>\n
memory\/
\nstillness<\/p>\n
cleft shadow of lightless<\/p>\n
ah then
\nrevert unto the none<\/p>\n
or the balk of
\nspeech<\/p>\n
reclaimed dirt breaking
\nbeneath the<\/p>\n
hands<\/p>\n
the severed wings of
\n(no)<\/p>\n
asks of the
\nsilenced sky\u2019s obsolete<\/p>\n
—<\/span><\/p>\n 3-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n bleed here or there laughter the shadow-line of it the breath of it shit smeared the eye dense it bleeds —<\/span><\/p>\n 17-<\/b><\/p>\n barbed\/ blinded trace ever then the longing<\/p>\n till bask\/ bone break and the coloured wishful to trace sung lest hand across mouth as of shadowing<\/p>\n breath till naught asking of the non hereafter<\/p>\n —<\/span><\/p>\n 5-<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n in damage season fallen eye of it<\/p>\n subtle less than breath (concave or\u2026 dreaming of the stark pageant out in-dream of cleft sun light<\/p>\n —<\/span><\/p>\n 16-<\/b><\/p>\n subtle then<\/p>\n (birth of\u2026 unspoken all nestling in dirt reclaimed amber lights to touch settled to fall from sunderance and the bone drift all sung\/ aloft<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His most recent work has appeared \u00a0in 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,<\/em> etc. A second full length collection, ‘Attributes<\/em>‘, was published by ‘Desperanto’ in 2011. ‘Lapwing Publications, (Ireland), also published a collection of his poems, ‘The Non Herein’<\/em>, in 2012 & The Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, (U.K), has recently \u00a0released an ekphrastic book of text\/ art, ‘Machinations<\/em>‘, 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s obsolete — 3- bleed here or there there or else laughter spliced the shadow-line of it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":934,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nthere or else<\/p>\n
\nspliced<\/p>\n
\nmarked<\/p>\n
\nsubtle as<\/p>\n
\ntill laughter<\/p>\n
\nan empty room<\/p>\n
\nit bleeds alack and all alone<\/p>\n
\nsubtle as a\u2026<\/p>\n
\nsettled<\/p>\n
\neye\u2019s appeal<\/p>\n
\n(emptily)<\/p>\n
\ntill redolent of<\/p>\n
\nor none<\/p>\n
\nsilt of the<\/p>\n
\nasking<\/p>\n
\nconvex as\u2026)<\/p>\n
\nthe pulse<\/p>\n
\nstruck out<\/p>\n
\n\u2026till naught of it)<\/p>\n
\nwhat sung from drift afar unsung<\/p>\n
\ntill hollow absence<\/p>\n
\nreclaimed<\/p>\n
\n(and so it\u2026)<\/p>\n
\nnight<\/p>\n
\nof the blood\/ (what bleed)<\/p>\n