sarah kelly

2 poems

Extract ‘untitled 08/11’

eyes down in order to

hear to be witnessed

call it fraughtdom

oscillating on the backs of our surnames

what we bring to the sand

and drops, tote like

all desperate to say a thing

with paint

from mornings of calm

grain trawling

to say the thing anyone says they can say

in silencing our persons

our dens our container caress

and the dub at the steps and the buzz upon gums

someone to love you like you hold in

in Our potentials

pricked and tasting from

balloons we sent to sky

beneath tranquiliser hoof shots

taught us to run

still life to get higher than

that habitable

hole from

form, theme and opportunity

jobbing hourness

only partially

satiates this

craving for a

structure I.get.my

feet open

with these accordions

and whinges

to decorate on wings

-

trustless

tongue fastened upon

a belief in tapped keyboards

out cases the limpness

of hands and diy satisfaction

forest your way through

that stray clawed your back

not me I am heart klepto and

mad for you

washed

and full of sprite

when it was power of the chasing

in beach caverns

crass now to

dict and hurl and magenta stand

firm on earthy soil matt

let gravity crush your toes or

take you bait and you boat

and sink for me

because I asked you

for living and

it went to caramel

'Untitled'

brighter

sense is

a secondary hope

just as the sink sashays

about with its fill

and you foster the intent

to sway by me

in sic in obstruction or

fleeing that

the jacket of her

oyez at our

opening

stilt my own

bathing rite

how ceremonious

you looked in

that sideway sleep

with the lock to

hide your mouth

from in

overspill murmur