More 'Swarms'

Near unanimity a raised arm producing a space/time place swirling through

an event, gesture ordering a trajectory               rumbling gut  ...

leaving, the talk is pessimistic and wind ruffles faces turned to each other or

glancing away in overlapping twists of unease and vague reflective furrowing

over shivering unrest anger short-sighted grumbling lengthy occasional hair's breadth

 

skewer pricks desiring a final fucking downfall of the fuckers and a spark of loving thrill

 

 

 

The idea that rain is information is a kind of transcendent nihilistic mystification

and a scalp feels it teeming among follicles slogans are deadening to her

he's feeling a force of tradition she's in front of a car looking in a grey light

a thigh aches shouting somewhere a nose aches cold & brittle lungs she

honours history but there's a chord of light there's a trembling surface of skin

A first fragment of a new poem . . .

Swarms

arm brushing arm, pressure cotton skin fleet pleasure; 

roaring under notice and warmth, shining, in hair. 

Moving, hard ground muffled through soles

and socks; aching calves, a rhythmic mist of sound

rising and then falling. A rhythmic fire sound rising

sustaining a lifting and a vein of anger. Red dominating 

with black; juxtapositions flap and ripple. 

A tickling, barely perceptible, above an ear, 

inside a hairline; a hand touching,

palm down and fully, a damp woollen weave; 

a detected simultaneous drifting of fag smoke. 

Cold and constant multiplicity of running water over fingers rubbing a soft smooth spoon.

Light flaring and a warm metallic taste, a smell of tea, of rotten damp, of warming. 

Binding purity mad goose he was better I didn't realise

give you the option hub      bub      There's a mental 

fucking cyclist going to get himself killed. 

Making its rapid way a pleasure agitation easy tumescence sniffing a breeze

against a muscular intellect & fires burn in the collision as another raises 

an eyebrow in cool question at molten justifications  hammered out

sucking nicotine & muted grainy cinematic desire a beautiful misery & feeling 

fat & disgusted & grinning satyrism blurred unfocussed vitalism beautiful

light after rain astride a saddle edged with anxiety about the time