one step

for those who spent

too much time & thinking

it is okay there now a

day's work if not a week

back up in the bright intolerable

sky there's ships arrayed

about the river

              sails a no general upset

dehydrate the dragging tide

rigour

it's beginning, for rigour is in all things,

the spark of transit, an arc of electron

decay, wide open tracts with space

for the measuring. A firmament we cannot

all be, and do not all be, but once a guiding

bulb caught ignition and cleared the air

of its thrifty gloom; no way the present

does not move on but stays fixed

like the light.

Thought for the Day

"The whole practised rigmarole made me feel utterly sick, I didn’t want to be any part of this world, I just felt miserable at the total exclusion of even a passing thought for the rejected and damaged and rubbished margins of our success story, forging ahead as “we” are to a bright and bushy-tailed future."

J.H. Prynne on David Willetts' talk at Cambridge : ‘The Coalition’s Vision for Science and Technology’

Found Poem

Dear customer.

The parcel was send your home address.

And it will arrice within 7 bussness day.

More information and the tracking number

are attached in document below.

 

In other news, InfiniteEditions has been launched this week. Check it out here and get your own free poetry postcards.

Sans Serif

it is clear from

the collated typefaces that each

was a chore,

why such work should

be left to the professionals is beyond

the cusps of reason

extra funds & in each instance I am

sorry to say

well, correct, say sorry to

Red Ceiling Press Poems

I've got some new poems on the Red Ceiling Press blog. See them here.

Update

Rumour abounds, and plenty going on at the moment. In the news:

Tom Raworth very kindly agreed to an interview, you can read it here.


SSYK are releasing number 4.

tipping up in London for a few nights

aquacrunk nu gruel a radio

signal he keyed or mustard cords

on Berwick Street

I've not seen a woodlouse in a while