All Aboard
electric jellywhales
pulse opera . . . their myths
of shallower times
immortality card:
go straight to hale
do not pass gone
technology keeps
us grounded . . . the
ant subterranean railway
the bodies
black foliage . . . artichoke-seals
snout the silt-seas
bond with local life . . .
in lichen cloak and hood
your mind deepens to stone
tunnel cities of
the fretted terrain . . . existential damp
seals us
the astromaggots . . .
all aboard the giant plum
for the fall to earth
Mrs. Eyes
is an innovator with leftovers . . .
candied fly wings
Full-Stops
her pubes of kelp
rich with nutrient . . . her larder full
of drowned seamen
old granny ten-tits
. . . the elepig
squeals the sky in half
falls a paragraph of fog
. . . moon-silver
a dog barks in full-stops
an innocent evil . . .
the shadows slip
from their puppets
three fine mice-men
the serval girls
purred you petrified
oh that mad hairday . . .
a lather befell
the city
through a door
in your soul we entered . . .
we rifled your light
from his cabinet
of paralyzed faces . . . her lips creased
for the everlasting time
my darling abalone
your mucous body slips
from its dress
one kiss
the frog prince turns
into a glass summer
Those Innocent Days
his spine cracked . . .
Dick Shinnarry
is lost for words
tethered to his winged goats
. . . blue, the goatherd doesn't wake
on the moon
travel by slime machine . . .
leave in disarray
arrive in a heap
space krill
were once called dark matter . . .
those innocent days of science
the slush oceans a hint
of vanilla . . . narsharks
display their sweet tooth
the mirror overcoat . . .
we admire ourselves
down his long back
the ant's chair . . .
yes, your arse
looks big in this
expleting the crossword
tussle . . . lost for swords
nine down
all the truths
that ever were lost . . . and this is the ear
that Jack has
violation a way of life . . .
glove puppets
accept the finger
Matryoshka fell
asunder . . . no custody
of her lesser selves
a downpour of diamonds . . .
the solid steel river
rings
John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland and is the author of five poetry collections, the most recent being The Offspring of the Moon, (Salmon Poetry, 2013). He also created and wrote The Ivory Tower for RTE radio, which ran to over one hundred half-hour episode from 1999 to 2002. Two novels based on the characters from this series have been published by the O'Brien Press: The Johnny Coffin Diaries and Johnny Coffin School-Dazed, which have been translated into both Italian and Serbian. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem "The Green Owl" won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. Also in 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.
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