David Toms














Notes from the Margins

L Verb of Noun














Notes from the Margins
 
In gardens
politics
messy thorns
turn me
inwardly
in wards of
civil
war hospitals
hospitilling
amongst you
the pitiless
so wrought
wound
rounded
up in these
messy
thorns of
gardens
politics
 
The crayonsmith
Digs his colours
Into myy
Digging drybone
Songs of nite
Dropp off this
this
distance of dis-ease
this sees
dis-crete
I cant bliev
That roses
Still get rolled out
On this day
His red rose
Secreted discreetly
In his pocket
Like
Bottle of coke
This-crete
Is an island
In the centre
Of the see
In the centre
Of the C
Is a curvature
Exactling
Middly
Rolling equally
Inkly in klip kley
Of ether of
Airwaves at me
Descending scends
Out signels
Of marginality
That drops off
This
This
Drops off me
Like kisses
Meaning nothing
 
Iff meaning something
Something meaning anything
Anything meaning
Nothing noting that
Ambi
Textual
Inter
Dexterous
Sightings
And writings
Righting wrong
Of hands
Offhands that
Stands staggering
Struggling to juggle
Three weeks of the year
And yet this
Thread
Is mingling
Amoebically
One to fore and eight
Is the hour of
Ascension decline the
Declension of verbs
That ambitextural
Interdextrally
Manifesting
Meticule molecs
Of the texts
In typing
Typecrafting
In the margins
Madling inch
Rarely widening
Never greater
Than
When full
To the brim
Of the brine
That runs off
Like words
Falling
Tonguedown
 
tonguesounds
tonguing round
grasping vowels
licking them
from the palette
pinkly hanging
cave pict off
churned out
thoughtless
taut my lips
in gripping
inferences
infracting
instigating
instances
in stances
of words
med useless
instanzas
transing
likened
to lighting
suffocated
spark
 
sparkling
masses
demonstrate
dexterity
of discourse
while
claiming
the theme
of subjectivity
brevity
is my charge
my charges
are not sparking
no amount
of shouting
is going to
light the taper


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L Verb of Noun
 
Lithographic framing
Of goodnight perfidy
 
Lachrymose mating
Of jowelled mythic
 
Licentious cooing
Of tensioned eyes
 
Lewd passing
Of televised eats
 
Lauded imitating
Of bettered craftsmen
 
Larynxed scuttling
Of warbling boats
 
Lionised masking
Of didactic glasses
 
Localised hunting
Of clenched shoes
 
Liminal pouring
Of ionised streams
 
Listed callings
Of failed robots
 
Longitudinal roving
Of pilfered momentos
 
Logarithimed tumbling
Of speckled triptychs
 
Loosed skulking
Of moribund verses
 
Lacerated smiling
Of opened camera
 
Logical delegating
Of intercepted ticket




























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