Here – floatin’ – ish-whiffs
of desiccated weed on a
glass neck – of iffy-sniffs
of dope & somethin’s – of
beer’s belly-round settles
I prefer a bottle of Newci
because our local pumps
are n’ swilld thrugh – see –
look at my remains there
[shy b’low] an obtuse polo
mint seat – relief is clipp’d
& wiped – flushin’ m’ recall
w/out looking down again!
Tag: alcohol
I yearn for a retreat
I yearn for a retreat
from my devices &
my vice of red-eyed
hours – do not wake
me – space spills in
as funnelling sand &
bottles of spilt wine
knocked back in my
bowl-sized cut glass
Instead – pull emptied
tumblers & tall flutes
from breakable lips –
do not kiss thin rims
& try to get shut-eye –
Michael – try to sleep
You almost kiss me
You almost kiss me with that dry smile
made by my your mouth
and your half look
You listen to me – and like me –
you hear near scatterings
of circled cross-table talk
I feel those ricochets of consonants
in split lines
as they pass across your eyes
Then one shuts to wink?
Those slices of others
have fixed on your slide
You capture just enough
to turn from me and find a twist to focus
to a floated idea
A reflection off your plate provides backlight
for you to use your microscope
and its monocular view
Gift of the Gab
Walk on air against your better judgement – Seamus Heaney, The Gravel Walks
I am getting drunk
with Seamus
He still rolls
his soot vowels out
from his distiller’s
mouth
We are considering
fallacies
from our buttressed
high attics
[Aloft in our crosstrees
he wrote]
My English accent flattens –
avoids rolled port-barrels
I will not sweat his peat
or grain
I once got pissed
on my brother-in-law’s poitín
I then sweated poetry
for days
Riddled
Half a waking aspirin
now taken down
and half a headache –
again – left to take
but screw her –
with regret –
more than tight enough
to avoid any off-licence visits –
or as an underlining
of twisted sorts
before not enough of her
causes concern?
A woman in a dress –
high chested –
so highly-grippable
and sweet-kissed in red –
her designer label states –
Mis en bouteille en France