The New Shift
a way of folding distance …
warts of Oort, her face in
the rorrim pond
by bucket down
the well of souls … our tau rope
slackens at the Big Klang
Earther, we bring you spacewards
in a bottle … milked aura
of Einstein
three centuries
of the void … ship pulls a crew
from the vending machine
souls of astronauts
gather into a clump … I name this bang
Whimper
yay, upon my forehead
the walking cactus scratched:
Ninx loves Priscilla
is the new shift
ready yet? … in the labour vats
the tadproles sprout limbs
grease from human fat …
things eased up for androids
once we boiled the dole queues
The Tip of His Tie
space mission … whirligig beetles
dance the stars reflected
on the pond
cheap to run,
you’ll hardly feel the motion …
granny’s time travel commode
a face for every day …
his heptahedron
marsupial girlfriend
Five Two Two
Unicorn Avenue … the postman
arrives in a wish
even higher, higher, we say …
by stairs carpet
to the glazed moon
the zero-g diet …
lunch
goes floating by
Trump sends forth
the tip of his tie … we’re gunna
sartorialize ‘em
you drinking
that polonium tea or not?
Death is sick of waiting
There is no, I repeat no
Avian Flu
In Cloud-Cuckoo-Land
The Price?
the Difference Accordion …
whatever tune you play
Death dances
the dog buries his master
piecemeal over the hills ...
fetch me back, boy
double whiskey
and comet ice please ...
the price? astronomical
a night watch
the ogre’s patchwork quilt
of mummified human faces
by heaven, you’re beautiful …
Dora Gray’s
final transition
between the cow’s horns:
St. Elmo’s fire ... turn left
at the fork in the sky
nuclear orphanage …
all the point threes
of a child line up
drew us a diagram ...
hence, our universe
is that diagram
to keep you warm my child …
she knits some of the sunlight
into the scarf
John W. Sexton lives in the Republic of Ireland and is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent being Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry, 2018). Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons Of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem The Green Owl won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.
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