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'scape, 2012, 9*, life, lifetimes, passing, Plumstead, prayer, space, superhero, table, Victorian houses, voices, walls, windows, Woolwich, words, writing
Woolwich Central –
making life better II
outside the sectioned late-Victorian gothic house
I know how much I cannot be the superhero
to the voice sustained in high-register vengeance and edge of fear
let alone the silent voice that sits by the hollow dividing wall
under the table
can I rend those walls asunder
and pike the onslaught with a single glance
deep into the whorl of flinch and recoil
of a lifetime?
can I scoop up the silence and hold it foetal
forever safe from the division and board
before the window?
can I
may the pain of scream and the silence of numb
build the very thirteen floors of open-plan living
in the centre of the city that they never quite found
when they first committed their lives together
for life
and may all the fear and cower magnify transparent
exponential to the tangle that pulls it all tight
into its own relief – the space forever at its heart
as the space between these words
that allows them to be read
thank you
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
life wormhole: Notre Dame
lifetimes wormhole: calm down
passing wormhole: there
Plumstead & walls wormholes: Bonus Books
space & Woolwich wormhole: Woolwich Central – / making life better
superhero wormhole: HA!
table wormhole: table
Victorian houses wormhole: Victorian / houses / uphill / Brighton
voices wormhole: varnish
windows wormhole: ruddy pink
words wormhole: poessay III: jijimuge
writing wormhole: write / in / g
Ah, the cruelty of being human.
I might not be able to read your work for a while, on a very limited dongle, which I’m meting out for MM and email.
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