Beach what?

Peachskinned beach

Each wing couple-coloured

Bruised purples fainting to dustpuddle turquoise 

Martyr reds

All light’s guises and guiles, conniving 

Cormorants diving like church-blasted comets into vomit green seas seething rabid inches beyond the paddling feet

Arms aloft greeting dawn as it’s shot 

Everyday Dublin drawn different

Indifferent goers, native indigents

Dizzying array of singular instance

Insistence on pittance of distance, poet’s portion

How sun gloried night’s abortion

How finned light wore water 

Revealing facets hitherto occulted, teasing out Geminis 

Sea sweet breach, cleft chest.


Sea great breached peach 

Beached whale tumescent excresent bloated gaseous 

Sagacious Nessus mischief medicine labours Herakles 

Workaday blink do not; wake, wake, grave

Ah be jaysis heartbruck will blubber over my cart fed into hearse’s maw 

Horse’s jaw gurning, lane outside my house

What name from his honest mouth

Whatever a horse says we true count

Whatever speed attains, measure by hoof

Trenchant insights in drunken merchant measure whorl forth from part-parted sleighting organs 

In manner oligarchial, autarchial and authoritarial, serving tranches of snark

Snarling like a barkless dog who with his scrap of hog flank must part 

Discordant harmony distended thoughts hover like comic book internal monologues.


Mouth spiders neither redoubt within nor crawl without at yawning open of crypts closed many solar cycles 

Incapacitated day, lazy 

Cowardice of illness

All ills healed in will foremost

Humors decanted into bulbous glass bilge jars bulging pregnant with ill wine.

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