Intimate Cartography

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Beautiful blocks of failing brutal

space against a virulent absent power 

and hegemonic swamping of 

riverbanks

                   asymmetry &  lines of

force particles of urine cigarette smoke

lust and electric bars warming 

damp

thunderous dreaming organising

sky organising breath of birds

shaping flesh with grinning grey force

slamming into a softness of evening

Dull shine flowing & 

cold branching shivers

smeared & seared with 

distraction of muddied 

attention dragging heavy

across shimmering

concrete & implied mud

coloured depths of chill

swirling mingled breath

cold poles impeding

dripping of bipedal bodies

through chill day dun-green

metal and concrete dull shine 

Roaring energies buzzing flux 

relaxed gazing patterns of 

chatter and silence around 

monumental iron coyness 

under marshmallow light 

inside a traffic vortex a

stranded three score 

unsouled dreamers of 

different trajectories 

passing in a diesel arc

Curving steel curving concrete &

rising up       rising up &

blocks and towers bridged through

concrete delicately stroked with 

low autumnal afternoon sun haze

gently softly gossamer down &

shining in a thunderous choking  

Shadows 

crossing between 

jammed

        cages 

shuffling & 

          lurching & 

flaring in light shifts

       night 

shining through 

outsized monetised

facialities  under 

         blocks of wealth

immense shuddering 

stench of networks

of commercialised desiring

        clogging all routes

Sweeping concrete down and light sinking

in and shining impregnating with a glow faint

in the dark an echoing deep throated whine 

of reversal all hardening marginally with

dropping temperature & torn visible respiration

of diamond air glittering sharply lacerating    

Weather

              dripping 

Clifford Still deprivation

blue architectural

blocks of

                monumental torn 

sensation squatting 

         wriggling decay of

desperation & vitality 

     tandoori 

     Super Bowl

shine resistant scab 

        a concrete struggle

a permanent dampness

Fired and stacked industrially 

producing spaces for restricted 

movement    whistling    gazing

sweeping arcs of extremities    & 

stacked high against cold air & 

glazed     shining when light is 

caught and particles or waves or strings 

rebound over flowing water 

Winter revelations of upreaching intertwining 

complexity surging with infinite patience

and slowness for life      aspects of a lung 

bipedal animals hearts thumping in the midst &

wistful desiring for a greening of spring then summer

Concrete wire weeds & sunlight

Movement of 

    pigment getting pulled 

up and propelled 

across beige concrete 

cracks and crumbling 

        a blank 

stitched grim gesturing of a 

mouth and a reaching 

out dynamic 

gestures in arrows 

signed in anonymity

Marlene Dumas

"To Know Him is to Love Him" merging with itself in a gallery of 

inked movement 

    bright in shimmering suspense and 

             slow stuttering disco-ordination 

of  viewers drifting monads and 

small packs hushed 

        intent 

a haptic  sweeping and focussed 

drinking of light following 

  shape and 

reading affects