#2339 -- what will we worship today?

 

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27.v.26

what will we worship today?

draft only

for godsbother

 

there’s golden calf, it glows crepuscular

 

claymation – there’s your golem fixed

and I, in turn, adored

 

else there’s violence and vengeance

will you choose fear?

 

our hero’s just a god now

so there are heavens above

very air

upward of

 

every deity’s a risk

 

what will we worship then?

 

a lamp of fruit?

light’s wings?

 

there is the tree herself

 

it’s all around – that’s what

 

just the way things are

 

some say stray truth

 

truth gets away

 

we’re always left with this question

#2338 -- the importance of elsewhere

 

2338

7.145

26.v.26

the importance of elsewhere

 

and the bounce between

to here there

 

whales are moving the coal about

…very Newcastle

touristic

 

particle in orbit

as it is down here –

the mystery accord

 

find yourself doing it all in a body

still, wonder how necessary this

 

can you see through a word?

 

got me in a box again

and again I’ll have wormed out

 

there is a lovely pointlessness to being

you just have to keep it up

#2337 -- in a cock forest

 

2337

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25.v.26

in a cock forest

 

ride Banbury

 

I have a few countries run like this

 

on old rhymes and guess

 

call themselves different

but rod to kiss

of course of course

 

have we got wood, pecker?

 

take to the day with a circular saw

 

pink and frilly virtues signalled

 

the pointing of a stick

 

think of it a nether snout

 

proudly stroke till true

 

Happy snaps from the opening of MY FIRST FOREST OF WORDS and the big 7 book Flying Islands Boolaunch at the Addi Rd Writers' Festival -- Saturday 16th May, 2026

 

in the Stirrup Gallery, Addi Rd 

Happy snaps (various sources) from the opening of 

Kit Kelen's

MY FIRST FOREST OF WORDS 

& 

the big 7 book Flying Islands Boolaunch at the Addi Rd Writers' Festival -- 

Saturday 16th May, 2026 

Peter Boyle 

Damien Becker 

Gillian Rubinstein 

Marl Mahemoff

Chris Mansell 

Clark Gormley

Nadia Wheatley

Brook Emery 

Ronald Atilano 

Sophie Loy-Wilson 

M/Cs -- Clark Gormley and Gillian Swain 

Paul Searles 

Gillian Swain 

DG Lloyd

 

Josh Stenberg 

Mark Mordue 

Dael Allison 

Mark Mahemoff