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ARTS AND CULTURE

Parliamentary circles

  • 12 August 2019

 

Selected poems

 

Hack

hack the mind of poet's turned prophet     finda masterpiece of imagination    must-have metaphorminefield of outrage           indignation

a rose or twounseemly unrequited lust      an unspecified longingfor someone else's        worn skin

documents and data points   unsent submissionsrejection files            failed epicslyrics waiting for rebirth as song

unrecognised               match dreams             to illusionand dreams can be used against the dreamer

dreams use photos and scars as data pointsbuy and sell privacy          forgotten algorithm platformsthree strikes        hack              you're out

 

 

Roundabouts

on the Circle driving around the Parliamentsecond time around and not sure where to get off or where they get off in the Big House talking talking         round and round

you say it's all swings and roundabouts         a circumlocutory carousel         a beauty of tautologymovement continuity         exhausting         periphrastic traffic circle         suckingout our oxygen

when all we expect         want         is neat lines, hospital corners         the breathing space of four-way intersections         slowing stop         to         turn

no pause to merge         roundabout way of saying         you will never be us

 

 

Three tanka

shortest day passesout of synch with mid-winterstill to comesub-zero morningsfrozen pipes         daffodils

archiving precious notespaper to USB stick —tech equipment obsoleteovernight         access portssegue to the Cloud

our Parliamenthunkers down         turtle         ostrichon Capital Hillwars are world businessfall out         our turn to clean up

 

 

Sandra’s poetry includes a range of critique and commentary on issues such as war, guns, gender, refugees, and gay and lesbian politics. Her recent publication Acting Like a Girl is published by Recent Work Press 2019