ENTANGLED
for Allen Fisher
nomad skulk and undercover
different models of oblivion
optional song and science
note held nerve-end high
street curve and circuit twitter
chaotic short-change signal
desire to feel everywhere
devoted future threshold
ultimate form of healing
virtuous noise asymmetry
dark sedimentary layer
assumed grammar's sludge
lured into data theory
imagination and memory
many levels of found text
translation's mistakes manifest
never our mother tongue
paradise not located here
in gravity's orbit I met my match
and fell in to expression trap
one version of the event
several days out to explore
temperature and storm damage
making so much of right now
explanation lost in consideration
shifting attraction of language
a few paper petals in the gutter
This text originally appeared as a review of Fisher's Entanglement on
www.Stridemagazine.co.uk. Do have a look.
Recent poetry by Rupert Loydell: A CONFERENCE OF VOICES [Shearsman, 2004], FAMILIAR TERRITORY [bluechrome, 2004], ENDLESSLY DIVISIBLE [Driftwood, 2003], THE MUSEUM OF LIGHT [Arc, 2003] all available to buy online at www.stridebooks.co.uk
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