the Growing Man

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1969, 2015, Avengers, defining, eyes, institution, notice, perspective, quantum, Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema, society, square

 

 

 

                                   the Growing Man

                                   always amid the
                                   square and receding tiling
                                   the little figure
                                   is never noticed

                                   until he acts
                                   quantum to right angle
                                   where he is found
                                   growing perspective

                                   so that no matter
                                   what you throw at him
                                   he will include it all ill-
                                   defined until it steps

                                   with glazed eyes through
                                   three-storey intstitution
                                   oblivious to the falling
                                   masonry all around

 

 

 

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eyes wormhole: Soir Bleu, 1914
society wormhole: the Conqueror

 

the Conqueror

Tags

2015, Avengers, awareness, breath, eyes, faces, fate, identity, lost, mask, mouth, nose, power, society

 

 

 

                                   there is a mask
                                   tight over the face
                                   of the Conqueror

                                   clung into cheekbone
                                   taught over flattened
                                   nose where no breath

                                   is possible; only eyes,
                                   that linger a second
                                   while the mouth

                                   languidly grims the
                                   only fate not strategically
                                   precluded, showing

 

 

 

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awareness & breath wormhole: on walking through walls
eyes wormhole: Exceat to Cuckmere Haven
faces wormhole: out side of the writing / lodge
identity wormhole: the tangles fall apart
mouth wormhole: you can only smell the candles / when they have been snuffed out
power & society wormhole: Bodiam Castle

 

1969

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1969, 2010, 4*, Avengers, emergence, Emma Peel, faces, mouth, portrait, smile, tv, voices, years

 

 

 

                                                                      1969

                                   her face like a plate
                                   her smile like a smirk
                                   her voice said “table”
                                   over my shoulder

                                   smelled of wet mouth
                                   I kissed the mouth of
                                   Emma Peel breathing
                                   her heady scalp

 

 

 

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emergence wormhole: the start of / adolescence
faces wormhole: gothic
mouth wormhole: teen gaze
smile wormhole: so
tv wormhole: 1973
voices wormhole: it was / pleasant
years wormhole: 1961 – Marilyn

 

biography

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2010, 4*, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg, Avengers, Batman, comics, Dr Strange, Emma Peel, floorboards, Gide, growth, identity, Infantino, Kirby, Neal Adams, pointlessness, reading, Salinger, sky, skyline, snow, streets, Thor, Tintin, tv, William Carlos Williams, windows, writing

 

 

 

                            biography

                      I didn’t lose myself in:

Batman’s Cowl Indestructible Scarlet UNCLE Saint Rainbow Batman POW Fantastic Tintin’s Landings FAB Empty Streets Diana Rigg’s Face Hey Hey We’re The Hopkirk’s ‘Jeanie’ Lost in Space MTM’s Make It Magic Roundabout’s Mirrored Movements Infantino’s Green Sky the Legion’s Pastels Sprang’s Angles Star Trek’s Apricot Skies Thor’s Kirby Infantino’s Leaning Skylines Ditko’s Strange M*A*S*H’s Jeeps Tom & Jerry’s Gop & Sto l’Alissa du Porte Etroite the Waltons’ Attic Window the Docks of O’Neill’s Batman the Cardigan of Starsky the Silent Films of Ashby & Altman the Floorboards of Gerber the Next Guest of Parkinson Green-Spined Penguins Adams’ Cape Szymczyk’s Name Kaluta’s Office Window Catcher’s Snowy Streets WCW’s Red Wheelbarrow Pollack’s Still Dramas Gene’s Colan the Watts of Alan Glass Apartments Mayerick’s Holmes John Buscema Dharma Bums’ Mountain Mersey Poets’ Wet Streets Miller’s Rooftop Water-towers Roseanne’s Darlene Cheers’ Coloured Checks Monologues of Desire Ginsberg’s Nod

                      I never had myself
                      to lose in the first place

                      but I found a
                      sense of self
                      in them sheltering

                      from the pointlessness
                      the purposelessness
                      of life

                      which grew to be
                      mark redford

                      but I am neither
                      Mark Redford
                                              – oh … –
                      nor the pointlessness
                                  – phew! –

                      I am just
                      writing these words and you – completingly –
                      are reading them

 

 

 

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Allen Ginsberg & Salinger wormhole: time
Batman & comics & writing wormholes: the silent night / of the Batman
Dr Strange & Thor wormhole: my / superpower
floorboards wormhole: To my Mum
identity wormhole: roof-top vigil
pointlessness wormhole: mass
reading wormhole: Initiation
sky & snow & windows wormhole: the osteopath
streets wormhole: Christmas lights / around the lamp post
tv wormhole: Hill / Street / Blues