Tuesday 19 July 2011

Aidan Semmens' A Stone Dog (Shearsman, 2011), first selection


LAMENTATION

For the destroyer shall come suddenly upon us


that which is manifest begins
with the seed of itself

blurred stirrings
of whatever is new, may be invented

hard black buds of ash
embers of haw

osier incipient

we weep
on bairns' bones
desolate
in our own decay

a desert harvest

toxic growth

a language
strangled


Aidan Semmens
A Stone Dog (Shearsman, 2011)


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