black refraction beyond crucifix
will rail stretch surfaces’ sharp tensions?
grace-solid canal surfaces
listening refraction
clarity’s beyond man’s
sleep’s snout will bleed
carries film-men between
.
refraction stretch will
refraction beyond will between
.
black will grace listening
clarity’s sleep’s film
.
will between listening-film
stretch beyond grace sleep
.
film film sleep
.
crucifix tensions surfaces
man’s refraction carries between
.
man soaked sleep black
weed’s refraction
snout beyond
fall’s crucifix
wire will
follow rail
by voice(-)stretch
empty word surfaces
woman’s pool fire-sharp
rubs tensions
.
man-soaked listening grace
conveyed clarity’s tender solid
ringed telegraph-formidable will
die between frames of canal
lane-dry voice to lights through surfaces
.
shallow if listening
patient weeds’ refraction
prayer conveyed clarity’s
tender beyond
paws’ crucifix man’s
.
between’s sheen-sleep
black-shaped refraction-snout
beyond paws a will
.
canal a listening prayer through bleed
is things light carries
I will in gap between frames film
only no men
slip’s seas heat air’s sure face between
.
tension’s soul but like a bad-road will
a paw’s shaped sleep-sheen between
.
between’s
man on a shallow-canal
-sheen soaked as if a
sleep but listening
a black-dog grace patient as prayer
-shaped weeds conveyed through
a refraction-clarity’s long bleed
a snout as tender as death is
to beyond our solid things
paws’ falls ringed by wet light
a crucifix-telegraph carries
a wire(d) man’s form idable weakness I
will
die in
a gap
between
two frames
of film
will only follow canal only
road only rail only lane no
bad deeds by dry men
a woman’s voice slips
a pool to stretch to seas
like fire empty of light’s heat
but sharp as word through air
soul rubs at surfaces’
tensions that are
between’s
Mark Goodwin writes and speaks in various ways. He also sound-enhances poems using field-recordings & software. Mark has published five full-length poetry collections & five chapbooks with Leafe Press’s Open House Editions, Longbarrow Press, Knives Forks & Spoons Press, Small Minded Books, Nine Arches Press, & Shearsman Books. Another full-length collection – which also includes fiction – called Rock as Gloss, is forthcoming with Longbarrow Press. Mark lives on boat in Leicestershire, and he is a balancer, walker, climber, and stroller …
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