Liz Kirby

 

no warning in force


sandbagged against the crumbling wall the lorry backwards down the slope not to be stopped once momentum gathered shredded plastic river dam debris of the flood line

back there hot gasses rising further back there was forward forward we refuse we will not our yes for the no of immediate noise now waters rise over the whole heart

each chamber say shut down over this lodge shut hand open closed mouth parted turned head turned body become rush against another further know

canalisation of these beech trees may not in the drought dam locked up in shoulders that do not soften look into your own eyes liquid already



mark


the bass of your breath a vibration that
causes a circle where the sun might

a touch of talk travels through muscle and bone
to tremble between triangle walls

state of the tongue as it textures a fricative
channels it down to the tip

the lips the throat the lungs combine
movement’s intention percussion of air

some unimaginable language deep
vowel opens a sweating flood

forming a grammar in the open
mouth fuck fuck fuck syntactical precision

viscous sounds travel back down
through the taproot to speak




 


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