john bryan
Australian poet John Bryan has been published in various
journals such as The Stump, Unlikely Stories, The Doomed City,
Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Sendecki, Fluid Ink Press, The Poet's
Cut and Little Brown Poetry. jbryan@vtown.com.au
Timing
bolt before the smile fired
you are not ready shot by
the scowl i am too late
just when exactly does your
sniper tongue intend sliding off
the roof walk through
that maw grins all tuned
play ivory tinkles trembling to the
tonsil treble will moisture spoil
these instruments mine spates
yours to crescendo yet
through afflux concerto
you keep clock looking
as if precision was
required to banal
this hum
oratorio
Jargon
are they bacteria or
flowery names for animals
their primaries understood
to perfection except by me
or the words would not be so big
a things' solid factums
defined by a thing in itself
they are a pane of sheet glass
on top of grimy blotches
suspended in examination,
objectives:
asphyxiophilia
klismaphilia
pictophilia
telephone Scatophilia
biastophilia
transvestophilia
Garage habitat
life pissing in
empty Cokes and
keeping ecosystemed
up to around 80
litres that gets locked
away in the cupboard
gurgle down the cellar i
call them my bottles
of humour:
sparkling,
yet dark.
mug full bodes
swirl mouth mirth
Finding the Word
in exchange for writing expletives i
lurk out in drink mix
with fleshy strands of pink & letters
bold, Gothic, italic, roman
which may link to form words
but dance jarbled not
even the strophe of strobes can arrange
where slurs discuss
wit and of ironic i see double:
laconic and sardonic yet no extra clarity
no verbs ask me to do them after all
these expansive drinks and i have looked
everywhere steering the porcelain bus but
my mouth only
contains colours
a scrap of paper pocketed
so we may talk later end this search but even this
is writ with numbers not words
Immolate
lightning's white surgery
slices the sky
dim dark and groggy
spilling entrails
cloud massacre
red river runs dry
go on rain
jump jump
jump
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