By: James Aitchison

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dipping his pen in mother’s milk
the baby wrote about stormy heavens
and a weasel in a pie
about pink remembered hills
finite and romantic
without periphrases or inversions
until he lost every scrap of sincerity
and the pathos of objects
a mystic baby
the Prince of Denmark’s child
in search of the pure cadence

Expressions of interest

what Harvey?
Saturday a slump as usual
the Queen’s top-loading business
learns from Norman
a long wedding 499-
gift card the suburb
any pool training St Francis?
comment: Bali heights fear
on selected appliances

Tristan Tzara’s body

potted ambiguity
a consequential writ
on a theoretical trellis
holy prosody
clings to clouds
scheming damage
vaporous intransigence
a geranium
why are you like that?

alive

unbounded pleasure sacred
racing through society
murder in the first degree (unavoidable)
just born and pink
a jar of blurred contagion
a humble container of consequences
dumbfounded again and again