David Rushmer


               PANES (after James Joyce)



                                              night      :
                               returning              meat

to enter into
                the illusion
                               of sympathies





                she comes
                between our phrases,


skulled
                voices:


                sharpening their eyes
in slow circles,





                clouds meet before time
                to speak

of
                               lace]

                your performance
                               of smoke

                               moving in
                                              some trembling language

                               about the body





                movement of the limbs, passing
                               whirling,
                                                             falling again to earth

                A moment
withdrawn,
                               —      in a moment. I remember
I remember
                the body
                as a light shower
                               returning
                                              promises of Spring,






                                              night silence
                under waves
                               the eyes

                               entering
                stone.





                                                             windows
                               to an air of perfumes




David Rushmer has published artworks and poetry in many journals and websites including; Angel Exhaust, Archive of the Now, BlazeVOX, E.ratio, Human Repair Kit, Molly Bloom, and, Shearsman. His first full length collection of poetry, Remains to Be Seen, was published by Shearsman in 2018. He works at the English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge.
 
 
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