with air frighters, technological bliss
Curtain razor on the other side
cool on the insistence roaming
lambs to the daughter air brush
revocation salts I’m eating
savouring my win tips
tip tip
living in the lessless
air in echo scrivings
focus on the singer’s trigonometry
it’s also really here words
reason hooch trees ardour
faster frill slow
laughter afternoon
the advent nary one boast
nor one canyon to collection
sage not even
one bluff nor addition
swamps emergent half-dark
scope there better than an absinthe
Look your teeth are vibrant
universals blissal advent scuppers
in the sky piece
birds are digging
everything blue ships dazzling
earth we came for
perlon
Electronic sounds (she said)
translate the natural world
tight score of unthought
swinging from the afters
zut haft-oft
she said the shiny wrappers
of action conversant vim in the
motile shimmer of the docent
out of which porous and porous
The core events, although, are
stranger ice, a light digging
drag in mallet pings
fair silence elongside
choice mortals of belief
Kind provenience (know what to say
the thick paper of soft friends rolling
warm dispersals through a ready-made
crust of life, air floss
in the crinkly soft fluorescent blue
dumps its audacity nearer to the
mirror dark as instruments heart
on the lease stripped
out rectangle of memory’s flashing like
red and white fair play like
a word is an egg that gives birth
to other eggs tattooed with
its credibly obliviated skeleton
hysterical intimacy
oho ta really thank you
Lisa Samuels is a transnational author of many books of poetry and prose, recently The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (2019). She also works with sound, visual art and film, e.g. Tomorrowland (2017). Her essays and editing focus in theory and poetics and experimental arts, and she lives and teaches in Aotearoa.
