Poems Niederngasse

Ann Marie Eldon
ditying
 
shut with the levied wall thrips
down to a sparrowthon crumb march
throttle; gone cracks, gone betterment,
gone immaculate, gone skilled, become
unconscious in order requirements
which carpets feed for example
straightening (rules for this, stripped
salvaged uncreased microparts
imparts…) that her knowledge
of Folds does shoulderto shoulderto. Smart
crass forage amygdalic forensic
sophistics can do.
Polish. Approximately sixty probably
walkthroughs – miles on the same feet,
table plaque, fork stacks, a money spider makes a
mere shoulder remarkable; laughable
how a Wednesday can touché
say a Tuesday cried once
sofa out of true took up
the cushion slack
but couldn’t remember
if it was coffee or
prim popped
her back
 
 
unspired
 
no spurge dwarf petty sun or wood
but flattéds on the clod shingle
 
sluck glazed aura keys:: fingers bother over
theses remaining untapped
 
a flog day; no sprog book
agog look repeats mimicking licking
 
memories there may have been Chicago smog
now could Log On anywhere not get
 
written bitten as it were Germanics
surroundeds no boardwalks not even un-
 
even bored walks young girls’ bumcracks
skirtswirls flat sandals bounce breasts hair typical
 
mess is this England or mere seating flew all this
way for peace and quiet found pre-spontaneously
 
combusted defocused nonplussed
busted cocktail garden party couldn’t peel
 
scheme from his eyes I’m hoping to get to London
but why when dreaming spires
 
highered?

 
through schist to fist
 
Damn: stood on firm ground yet                 I
did not know where to place si-
mplicity. Astounding that                            out
of my mouth should shout many  cryptophasic severences
(about) 'distinguished by'...
 
transparent plates
fine disseminated scales
light and dark micas
muscovite
biotite
 
right listing like last night was a possible domestic across the
 
street.
Ah but getting down to the base of it all, lights out and nothing
more complicated than
hard and hard, presence of haema-something, taste in the mouth; love his biting
yet she loathes and fears his plied uncouth piss-breath. We
 
are on the frontier here, a perfect cleavage, sheets formerly
used as window panes, chiefly insulating materials,
low resistances, dark, given to black, back
to the exotic distraction an extraction
of zinnwaldite.
Scabbed by morning no doubt got
 
more than she bargained for and massive fell
KLiFeAl(F2OH)2AlSi3010
to analysis – this side such solid pleasure and hers, cheek de-
hisced/due to loss of iron
the hospital.


181˚
 
Masses displaced. There
somebodies always on
 
the move. To manipulate today’s headline
means taking up that smell refugee-en masse smell. Taking it
 
up. Enough is feed to children.
Put the boy’s bike lights on. Screw. Screw. Every-
 
    needs a place. Sending the one-eyed
hooked bully to hell, thinking it
may well get me a fatwa
 
smell which can never quite be encapsulated.
A crowd I join. I
 
turn away. Cook. I
never read recipes. My hands’ resort flour. A factoid may reconcile Ishmael and Isaac.
 
Blood blooms from foetid to umbilical
in my hope womb. Turn. There –
 
a strange trig. to the Trintity
is. Makes numbers nonsense.

AnnMarie Eldon, an identical twin, evolved from cryptophasic origins in once densely industrialised Birmingham, England. Since September 2001, juggling various personae interiorae, US/UK homes and children, she survives relative domestic deprivation and hormones to somehow achieve successful adult differentiation and spiritual balance within the mediocrity of a picturesque Oxfordshire market town.
     
About these poems: from the author
I have no idea how a concept 'work' works. Work is. It is a physical activity even if labelled 'mental' or 'intellectual'. As such it cannot be 'about' anything - even if say a piece of work like writing a book. A book may be 'about' something but the writing of it is a physical pursuit. I have tried to invent, to sonic my way through these works - 'about' poetry may as well be any other addiction - a soporific substitute. 'Should' 'could' poetics ever be co-opted? I'm presently the end of a line of massive invasions - Vikings, Goths, Saxons, French - there are more words derived from Russian in British English than Welsh for example. How ringfenced language if we socialise it that way. How much we could get analytical. Meanwhile I have the house to clean, I remember a charming man who I didn't have a chance to talk to who came to Oxford to write a book about Chicago and got caught up in cocktail party-banter, the dead eyes which spill from the commuter train. Speak not like that, but in poetry speak new, speak through, speak with a not à bout.