Spring coil circle back
a list of common enemies
clocks
demarcations of ticking clocks
treachery of digital clocks after dark
rupture of alarm clocks
this roiling state of alarm
mirrors
stationed in bathroom
watchful in hallway
the reflective surface of household objects
glint of knife
averted gaze
winter
etiolateddesolate
stealing light from steel grey sky
ice creep creak in brittle lungs
grinding, the world turns
breathe
keep breathing
power
that is, money
that is, incarcerate taxonomy of human worth
the violence of deed and word
guiltlessshameless
fireproof
and so tantalising
grasp it in
from
with
unruly names
present remedies (garden friends)
ordinary struggles repeating through time
receding blue of hollow sky
or the sharp line of moonlight
cutting a path
into
over
acrossthe sea
prose accepts, poetry rebels
slip the leash of gender
destabilise power
(breathe)
(keep breathing)
and refuse
trembling
on the brink
rebelwild radical
as spring
re-fuses
liquid heatfrom tangled rootssurging
tumult unfurling
limbs outstretched
exultant
Submission Title
Spring coil circle back.
Submission Location
Stockwell London SW4.
Submission Notes
"prose accepts, poetry rebels": quoted from The Return to Poetry by Laurence Binyon, published in Rhythm Spring 1912.
"trembling/on the brink": quoted from The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks (in turn quoted in Richard Cappuccio’s essay Katherine Mansfield’s Russian Mask: Boris Petrovsky and the Poetry of Rhythm).
Manifesto Statement
Think of it as three strands of care – caring for, caring about, caring with – plaited with three strands of listening: listening to, listening for, listening with.
The name of someone in your field you admire
A photograph you’ve taken
A historical image
An existing image of current affairs
Rhythm
(November 1912)
Rhythm
(March 1912)
