autumnal sludge trudge mush trudge mush dear ape sweet ape good ape O homo rapiens beautylovedeath rhapsody in blue minor the trees stark & bare don't care mush trudge sludge mush trudge sludge swing low sweet swing low sweet coming for to coming for to depending on where of kith of kin of kinship dear ape beauty ape love ape death gape in the dark void sing beautylovedeath beautylovedeath beautylovedeath deathbeautylove deathbeautylove deathbeautylove & so on in a hole to fall in fall in fall in falling falling falling O O O dear ape time closing the gap the long trek back to the track the track the track ancestor of the comet where walls tremble back & bones stack in the black in the black in the black where echoes distort the answer what stays what does not leave in tunnels of light in tunnels of dark that cross & intercede sculptured in the rock the body on a rack where words crack as sound surfaces on the surf surf surf surf surf
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk, Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)