Poem
Louis Armand
Composition [After Boyd, Nolan]
Composition [After Boyd, Nolan]
Composition [After Boyd, Nolan]
fixed in mundane matter the prone body—penumbral man—dissipates, the trace
of an utterly contingent “this” . . .
or dispossessed & devoured by space—
convulsive—the post-galvanic twitchings
of (trans-)coded flesh? dead-level plains
with crow & skeleton tree, concealing
an interior zone of primordial elements—
inorganic substances as arcane as
salt sulphur mercury-rising phallus-like
from white drought-cracked soil—
the heliod genitals of a mechanised
underworld-infernal seeds groping
upwards to petrified light, flowering
in the negative arborescence of [bushfires, etc.
© 2000, Louis Armand
From: Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets
Publisher: Paper Bark Press / Craftsman House, Sydney
From: Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets
Publisher: Paper Bark Press / Craftsman House, Sydney
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Composition [After Boyd, Nolan]
fixed in mundane matter the prone body—penumbral man—dissipates, the trace
of an utterly contingent “this” . . .
or dispossessed & devoured by space—
convulsive—the post-galvanic twitchings
of (trans-)coded flesh? dead-level plains
with crow & skeleton tree, concealing
an interior zone of primordial elements—
inorganic substances as arcane as
salt sulphur mercury-rising phallus-like
from white drought-cracked soil—
the heliod genitals of a mechanised
underworld-infernal seeds groping
upwards to petrified light, flowering
in the negative arborescence of [bushfires, etc.
From: Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets
Composition [After Boyd, Nolan]
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