by the waters of babalong says the apprentice to the muckwhiff over tub and potato spits, sparks, spats, distil and imbib those mucus waters, b flat, compelled edgeward endward, enderbyward, full foul from the clifftop (dawn dawn) through goats of cloud plummeting unto the caul’s catch our lady’s gusset and smalls pigged to a clothesrope a divil in soap’s clothing, the dung moon reflecting owls, gazelles, (somewhere a pointillist cloudpattern) all that hovering with intent, all those planes to crotch, your hair alive with static like a balloon, in the name of the the shoewornstone, the dustymantle.

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Mark O’Flynn has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Einstein’s Brain (Puncher & Wattmann) and Undercoat (Liquid Amber Press).

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