Poems Niederngasse
 
 
Brendan Connell
   Nomads

     The nomads, my ancestors, imbued me with savage blood; put their 
children to death in order to move more quickly.

     —And the forests and banks of sand; pinnacles of microscopic worlds and 
steam of mesmerized instants. Which, bowing to and on, a body's jelloey 
ligaments fold, crash, and burst into foam.

     You nomads; adopting new young, the parents of whom you killed, and 
ate.

     Let me leak out this blood of yours; before I cannibalize the one I 
adore. To step over oozing trails, fjords of decimated sentiments, ebb from 
dizzying heights.

     —And the forests and banks of sand; pinnacles of microscopic worlds, 
spilling beads of interlinked instants. Stand still.
 

Brendan Connell has fiction either forthcoming, or already published, in numerous magazines, literary journals and anthologies, including RE:AL, Tabu, Heist, Penny Dreadful, Fishdrum, The Dream Zone, Darkness Rising 4 (Cosmos Books 2002), Redsine (Cosmos Books 2002), The Best of Devil Blossoms (Asterius Press 2002), and Leviathan 3 (Ministry of Whimsy Press 2002). He has had translations published in Literature of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Prentice Hall 1999) 
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