Tour

I do

all the buildings

raw

tweaked pharmacy

blood on the side

walk trance

the shred fabric

closed

the hungry

methadone child

all pre

trans

figured

numb in the arms

chalk wield head

harder

outlines

sun shards shred

continuity

laugh for

cause

the curled body

lumped on the major

bed

windows

already splint

with elemental

efficacy

permission from

what’s outside

ways in

on the

floor ground

all the mystery’s

won out of

life

the like gritty

congealed

micro-furniture

swabs

one’s skin

giving a

hint of glassy

futurity

you often

hear that slime

is lovely

that it

consummates

noses snails

throats

the quick clear

cream of the

blister

so that’s

futurity for you

rolling on the sidewalk

again

Lisa Samuels is the author of many books of prose and poetry, recently 'The Long White Cloud of Unknowing' (2019). She also works with sound, visual art and film. Her essays and editing focus in theory and poetics, and she lives and teaches in Tāmaki Makaurau.

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