Flensing whales at a whaling station, Akutan, Alaska, ca 1915 The dreaded rooms of surrendered disarticulation,The body, de-fleshed, deracinated now, eying the walls.Where the exhaled tobacco creates... Continue reading
by James O’Brien The low loaders were busy,Around the time of ceasefire.Shifting carnage machines,To follow a map to your Hell.There’s a mad lady over there,Who has the... Continue reading
by James O’Brien What’s left is stretchered on the metal frame,A borrowed structure dominating a fetid room.The barrelled light a stale vortex of horsemen,Refracted from retreating flesh... Continue reading
by James O'Brien The percussion on your teeth, A drum roll, precision revolver, Rattling around an abyss dissonance. A voided revulsion of mouth, A choke spasm... Continue reading
The Kristallnacht Variations by James O’Brien Children of rape in a disputed territory,Cry from diseased hinterlands, abandoned,The striated embellishment of the spray can,The incendiary enticement of petrol,... Continue reading
The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter by James O’Brien The undertaker appeared rooted, transfixed as a glare,As rigid as a fire poker in... Continue reading
The Colossus of Snide by James O’Brien Feet planted on pilings too small to bear the weight,The sunken god fell, contradicted by the elements,The mournful plaintiff soon... Continue reading