A Festschrift for Tony Frazer
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PSEUDOSCORPION  
 

Secondly, when one eyelash of yours falls past  
midnight my shadows rush to take it, 
dissociating your so-minded ensibility. 
Over the grey peneplain nothing moves 
apart from god’s hand and then some stillness  
hurtles from me—I, beetle-driver, custodian  
of dust, beleague the loopholes 
and illiterate the labourynth asunder  
as starletters disarmember the motherkin. 
In order to polish language’s mirror  
and climb the last sentence I forklift  
pedipalp, foremitten and eyesuckle 
all alliable with smallarmed suckstance 
in a junkbonded countermemory 
unevening the crepuscule, my clauses depend from  
wreck of a fly, hingeable jawpiece. 
From the acorn’s amberchamber faraft  
we are in line for an understanding, 
but the stones are thinking too hard. Trees flood name. 
Hold till you see the whites of their eggs, 
deletailed until selfever’s leasticity. 
The dark is under attack from more dark: 
the father and the man in robes let me do this  
in my meetings with the hard stone floor. 
My hardgot rockdrill fragmented. 
Spit light, maps come out in the head 
to express how our forested arms are  
as we had laid our heads, the bowls  
combine elegy with the toes in the sand  
the sun, old fried, its trail turn black 
to the golden empires of the child. 
In death’s innumerable rubble it sees  
the snake lay in the sun then it crepes up  
at the tail & so to the head but then  
he claws him softly & he fastens so  
hard that the snake cannot shake him of &  
this worm sleeth him & then eats his full.  
 
 
 
SCORPION  




Once under a time and beneath the moon 
the eye on grey terrain tracks other eyes 
the meatwands and feelery digits  
by which search-data palp dimly in chests 
and peripediments of affix weave  
sight, questions flame as flesh in  
the pan. Think like stone; sink like sand,  
wound the heel, issue a product recoil  
on a tree the leaf of which curdles things 
through head-openings on the trailed moon 
that crawled into senses long behind us.  
We mirrordrown our vectims with machine-breath, 
headstrike the stonehinged powersurge 
predestroy the complicate nosecond  
for love is our endonym with which 
we instring the illominate unstrument 
by rule of claw and satyriasis of backclaw 
stone will answer stone, spilling units of  
harm. Revenge is a chilldish: we do not make  
false stars nor tristinguish the minortaur. 
Understone the hole, the strings inside the brain  
run cool. The act of reading brings  
alive the yeses that make spines  
in their back the indoll with prick and tong  
the oracle for sand where our shapes innounce  
us as derived from tact and the stars are  
caught out too long by our answers. 
We forest the shadows, are nothing but that  
which our name is full of: answer  
the dust, take head. War is a toss-up between  
calamities. When life is destroyed, exit  
from rock, seize power while  
the night raises cactus-flowers  
our children might sing in the world which  
money abstracted. Tails, we win.

Giles Goodland
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