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JACK ALUN
Jack
Alun was born in Cardiff, and now lives and works in South West France as a
writer, translator and photographer. His poems have been published in magazines
and anthologies in the U.K . and the U.S. He has written two travel books, with
a third on its way. Under the name of John Couth, he regularly writes poetry
reviews for Shearsman online magazine.
scuba
interior
felted
gloom wraps
shoulders in
its lamp light caul radiators
curtains fitted carpet soft
armchair the amniotic of
the foetally survived protected
legal free and
able to do anything but
walk away on
the streets the
wild prowl crazy
eyed crack of
the wind splinter violator
of trees mugger
of rooftops joy
rider of shadows curb
crawler vandal thug
delinquent drunk animal
lout in the bushes psychotomimetic
of the
night rages but
walk away and
able to do anything protected
legal free the
foetally survived the
amniotic soft of the armchair fitted
carpets curtains radiators
in the light lamp
caul wrap shouldering
gloom felted interior
eurydice
am
I there with her either
with love or
with death either
the first taste or
the first touch bond
between us a
soiled sheet sacrament
of intimacy the
intimate infinite of
opposites or
understanding in the
self she wore the
predisposed self the
self that never slept with
eyes wide open and
legs only
to be dreamed of the
cliche of images flower
in the garden fruit
in the orchard champagne
on the tongue perfume
of an empty room lingering
lace
on lingerie skin
against skin the
smoothness of eternity of
dark crescendo executed
and executioner tumbling
through the earth together
where
she remained in
forgetfulness as
only part song can now and then reprising
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