{"id":261,"date":"2016-05-01T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T20:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prismaprisma.eu\/?p=261"},"modified":"2023-11-04T11:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:35:15","slug":"christopher-barnett-27-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prismaprisma.eu\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Barnett 27 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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pdf<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

come
\ncycling to towers
\ntoppling
\ninto
\ntar<\/p>\n

believe
\nyour book
\nfor what<\/p>\n

it\u2019s worth
\nalmost nothing
\nat all<\/p>\n

except numbers
\nknocking about
\nin head<\/p>\n

head
\na hole
\nfor working<\/p>\n

parts
\nfragment<\/p>\n

rats
\nforage<\/p>\n

back
\nof machine<\/p>\n

that doesn\u2019t work
\nor it can\u2019t
\nmake it
\nmuch further<\/p>\n

less
\nso much
\nless than stone<\/p>\n

looking through window
\nat woman weeping
\nat sight
\nof whatever<\/p>\n

i am
\nto you<\/p>\n

attempting construction
\nso carefully<\/p>\n

feel world
\ncollapsing<\/p>\n

centimeter
\nby centimeter<\/p>\n

see us
\nthrough song
\nof songs<\/p>\n

we
\nare just<\/p>\n

learning to sing<\/p>\n

swallow secrets
\nwhen singing<\/p>\n

wearing white shirt
\nover bloody body<\/p>\n

explain
\nto damned
\nhow<\/p>\n

her hips
\nheld you
\none night
\nin small village<\/p>\n

take
\ntime<\/p>\n

steal seconds
\nin your song<\/p>\n

another dominion<\/p>\n

shifting stones
\npalm to palm<\/p>\n

take
\ndepth
\ninto depths<\/p>\n

night still<\/p>\n

walk
\nin water<\/p>\n

sph\u00e8re<\/p>\n

speaks<\/p>\n

when<\/p>\n

they\u2019re listening
\nto tune<\/p>\n

precious silence<\/p>\n

pick up traces<\/p>\n

cry in dark<\/p>\n

sleep<\/p>\n

in
\nline<\/p>\n

remember ravens<\/p>\n

swallow
\nsouls whole<\/p>\n

architects
\nof abjection<\/p>\n

birds beautiful birds
\ncruel<\/p>\n

take blade
\nto stomach<\/p>\n

rip right
\nacross<\/p>\n

bathe in blood<\/p>\n

bathed in blood<\/p>\n

watch
\nfrom within
\nwave i am
\nbecoming<\/p>\n

here
\nturning
\ntowards
\nyou<\/p>\n

wake up<\/p>\n

some
\ntimes<\/p>\n

so beautiful<\/p>\n

surface so thin
\nso very thin<\/p>\n

expect ice
\nto save you<\/p>\n

it never does
\nit never does<\/p>\n

why don’t
\nyou wait<\/p>\n

for waves
\nwithout blood<\/p>\n

dance
\nto satisfy
\nthis perfect torso<\/p>\n

contradictions
\nimperfect trap
\nfor perfect minds<\/p>\n

when they want
\nan endless circle<\/p>\n

passing
\nthrough lives
\ninsignificant
\n& precious<\/p>\n

carve this
\ncadaver<\/p>\n

with stones<\/p>\n

come
\ncarve<\/p>\n

clean<\/p>\n

wash<\/p>\n

maul memory
\nwhen waving
\nstone
\nat sky<\/p>\n

bring
\nit back<\/p>\n

to skin<\/p>\n

sleep
\ndead
\nsleep
\ndead’s
\ndream<\/p>\n

no
\nnight knows<\/p>\n

all alert<\/p>\n

to end<\/p>\n

before it begins<\/p>\n

who knows how
\nto break<\/p>\n

rock
\n& rain<\/p>\n

remember
\nmemories of mud<\/p>\n

tell her
\ntragedy of tides<\/p>\n

if you can
\nin this
\ncommotion<\/p>\n

remember
\nmanner of moon<\/p>\n

towards torso<\/p>\n

remember<\/p>\n

watch you
\nwalk
\nacross room<\/p>\n

who spent time
\nin chapel<\/p>\n

who spent time
\nin dark<\/p>\n

mere fractions
\ncold heart
\ndrawn
\ntestament<\/p>\n

trick<\/p>\n

carry longing
\ncoherent<\/p>\n

despair
\ninstructs<\/p>\n

c b – avril \u2013 nantes<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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