Peter Macrow
Messages 1
(Suite no.9)
1.
wanting to read -
mother cat
sits on the aerogram
2.
a raven calls
from the cemetery pine
cold wind
3.
painting on mirrors
dead flowers
screaming
Messages 2
(Suite no.10)
1.
June 1st -
tell the trees it's winter
it's what the bureaucrats say
2.
half-way normal
he said I sounded
today. less pain?
keep up the good work!
but that's as close
as you'd want to be
isn't it? to normal
half way
3.
in cloud cuckoo land
it's always two hairs past a freckle
and cats read aerograms
because they're not butterflies
(they know everything)
Moving Words
(Suite no.11)
1.
life is not a poem
or if it is
it needs more work
2.
the standard of grafitti has improved,
I think, since I've been writing.
hmm, guess my poems aren't everyone's taste.
wiped them off the toilet walls, dickheads.
3.
critical mass
critical mess
stuff
art
SCREAM
after 'The Noodle Sutra'
of Michael McClintock
(a contemplative haibun)
in the loneliness/ of all is one/ a god cried/
and from the tears/ a man/ and another/
different/ and nothing/ and a god cried...
the piece is meant to have the slashes.
'The Noodle Sutra' has just been published
in Raw NerVZ Haiku, vol.10, no.2.
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