as our planet hurtles through (hurtles hurtles hurtles) the aftermath of a super nova (super nova super nova super nova) mid-stream – beyond the void faster – void faster than entangled space – as stars go out as stars go out as stars go out as stars go out world wide world wide on our daily media show we chat to each other as if we were in the know fine tuned to dystopia in our quantification of atomic seconds seconds seconds seconds seconds seconds does anybody know – does anybody know what we are from before - before before before in our new normal normalcy normally normal in our new normal normalcy normally normal with our daily dance with death on the doorstep with our daily dance with death on the doorstep as sudden as a theatre's curtain falls or calls for a change of costume (calls calls calls) & nothing more that this isn't the war to end all wars at least not yet not yet not yet not yet just the plague regularly as empires fall regularly regularly regularly regularly
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)