Of The-Head of death The seasons dissipate as if they A dissolving sky The silent laughter of the blood Nothing More-Ruins of the foreign sky Smears of dying animals upon clear glass
Ignites-A blindfold of congealed earth Lacking the light Upon-Brute flesh shocks the nothing back And is then pissed upon
Silences-Heart of desolate Nowhere else/ nowhere/ nothing less Echoes of non-being Champion-Dark hollow One final breath to champion the infinite
Ever-Haven to begin from With liquid hands II#9- Echo within echo within shadow of… Pantheon of carousel/ of vertigo/ of absences Night’s undoing was never night #14- Danse of polka winds…night undone/ Silent retrace of bone/ vapours/ memories Immense sky of non-death/ nothing lessened #15- Hollowed tongue…winds dealt/ silenced Sing elixir of non-speech/ mouth full of dry sands #18- Adrift…a visage of mists…(dead unto breath)/ arbitrary Night of vague breathing/ unheard voices/ voices heard Stillness of forgotten sky/ there or here again/ cast aside #19- Waste ground/ flies of haste/ silver voices/ decay Arise dead/ so much the/ dread/ silenced/ birthed
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| All the images accompanying the poems from Of Dead Silences (Lapwing 2013) are © Michael McAloran (Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 2012) |
| Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His work has appeared in various print and online zines, including Carcinogenic Poetry, Calliope Nerve, The Recusant, PMI, Sex & Murder Magazine, Full Of Crow, Media Virus, In Between Altered States, Horror, Sleaze & Trash, Negative Suck, Graffiti Kolkata, Pratishedhak, Prathamata, Danse Macabre, amphibi.us, The Plebian Rag, Full of Crow, Gloom Cupboard, Gutter Eloquence, 1000th Monkey, Fashion For Collapse, Fragile Arts Quarterly, Clockwise Cat, Sein Und Werden, Peripheral Surveys, Milk Sugar Literary Journal, Psychic Meatloaf, Cannoli Pie, The Medulla Review, Counterexample Poetics, Heavy Bear, Indigo Rising, Widowmoon Press, Nothing, No-one, Nowhere, Mastodon Dentist, Gobbet, Ink Sweat & Tears, Ygdrasil, Establishment, Stride, A New Ulster, Primal Urge Magazine, Can Can, etc.He has authored a number of chapbooks, including ‘The Gathered Bones’, (Calliope Nerve Media), ‘Final Fragments’, (Calliope Nerve Media), & ‘The Death-Streaked Air’ (Virgogray Press), ‘Debris’, (Erbacce-Press),‘The Rapacious Night‘, (Calliope Nerve Media),’, & ‘Unto Naught’, (Erbacce-Press). A full-length collection of poems, ‘Attributes’, was published by ‘Desperanto’, (NY), in May 2011, & ‘The Non Herein’ was published by Lapwing Publications in 2012. An ekphrastic text/ image book, ‘Machinations’ was published in 2013 by Knives, Forks & Spoons Press (U.K). More recently, two further collections, ‘In Damage Seasons’ & ‘All Stepped/ Undone’ were published by Oneiros Books. Lapwing Publications also recently published a collection of imagistic aphorisms, ‘Of Dead Silences’ |
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