the headsets ache their way through a split-
screen vision of homes for sale, perfection
in creases lost, wrappings of plastics hide their
hours when cloth was torn – toothmarks
somehow still visible though lips not sore
forearms stretch to repetition, a death outside but
forgotten in ends: there are bones there regardless
kitchens sink away, concretes creep and open plan
displays her best intentions, spread wide beneath
a bespoke desk heavy with distraction – a calendar
scored with once-promised days. Scripts appear,
voices rise anew: we remind ourselves of breathing
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January 18th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Benjamin….
I am giving (passing) you the Genuine Blogger Award.
I like visiting your blog, love the title of it, and definitely think your writings are great. So…
Congrats!!! They are no rules to this award and no questions to answer. You can give it to as little or as many bloggers as you would see fit.
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January 18th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Thankyou so very, very much.
January 18th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
I truly hope that you will accept this award.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
this is a great piece I love every lines…
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January 20th, 2012 at 5:51 am
Hello, Benjamin.
I am nominating you for the 7 X 7 Link Award.
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Congratulations
January 20th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Thankyou so much. To what do I owe this honour?
January 20th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
I could spend hours reading through your work—captivating.
This is an opportunity for you to share your top seven pieces.
All the best in 2012!
January 20th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
thankyou so much. I’m glad I found you.
January 21st, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Ah to back down to earth and the reality it bestows us! I prefer part one, but I see how you meant that it was going a different direction. The first is definitely a darker set up, though there are similarly haunting images here- “toothmarks somehow still visible though lips not sore.” Lovely envelopment of the distraction, burden, and overwhelm of life… If that was what you were going for
PS, Congrats on this being a major award winning post! Seriously wow!
January 21st, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Thankyou – I much prefer part 1 too, but this blog is here for pretty much everything I write and I must stick to that! I used to write a lot of things like this, a sort of twisting of small urban tragedies, petty sexual perversions and kitchen sink scenes, but I long ago abandoned them. I wasn`t too sure why or how they re-emerged, but there you go… I am planning on returning to fiction and my iconography essays for a month, but doubtless some more poems will want to be written. Anyway, thanks again for your attention
January 22nd, 2012 at 2:06 am
Benjamin . . .I like how you write what you write and sometimes that might mean somethings you don’t always plan on.
What a true artist you are! Thanks for letting us in on it all!
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:16 pm
I am utterly delighted I can elicit such a response! Thank you so much x
January 21st, 2012 at 5:37 pm
Hi Benjamin
Many thanks for visiting my site today. Wow… your blog is fabulous. I love your imagery & your prose.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 am
nothing I could say could outshine the beauty of what you’ve shared here within your blog.
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:15 pm
ahh… you are too kind! I’m glad I found your blog. Thankyou!
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Some really nice lines here, Benjamin, and play on words as well. Should ‘bestoke’ not be ‘bespoke’? I liked the ‘interior decorator’ gone wrong idea – distractions?
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:15 pm
thankyou for showing me the spelling error – such things happen, unfortunately. The vast majority of what I write here pops up unedited. And yes… interior decorator gone wrong sums this up nicely. Although my office nowadays is private and pleasant, I vividly remember the spaces of yesteryear, thinly veiled sexual suggestion decked out in flipcharts and trolldolls. And sadness. But yes… Don’t know how much more poetry I’ll post this week, depends entirely on the willingness of certain publishers and my personal spiritual willingness… thanks again!
January 26th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
You are an excellent poet. I know that’s vauge but you are. Each line is very detailed and rich. My hat comes off to you – I enjoy your work.
January 27th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Thankyou so much
January 30th, 2012 at 10:04 am
you liked a poem of mine, i decided to see who you are, and… oh god! i am honored you even looked at what i wrote. i am usually partial to free-verse, but i would be very amiss to slander, even in thought, what you have written here.