David Rushmer
THE WAKE
the pupil dilates
from the vigil
of sleep
The message
motivated
by the act
radiating from deep
pooled blood
to fluctuate
in slumber
an insect’s wings
skimming the surface
(before melting
explain the vanishing
of memory
II
codes of the body
that drift and stream
dimensions of /winds, vapours,
and the chambers
of muscular force.
opening of/ opening
painted,
a void
seen
as the interior space
of flowers, shells,
an unblinking eye at the centre,
ripples
A MATTER OF MEMORY
to imagine
a matter of memory:
our bodies
the archives
a book of flesh
its secret gardens
plowing speech
to penetrate the literal absent
& lend your body to the sky
THE DEATH SENSATIONS
The death
sensations.
fingers in the room
that touch
with some
dark
practice
beyond
an infinity
if you stand between two mirrors
a skin guttering
the culmination
forming
principles of coagula
whose body all things
have seen
reflected
in another distance
complete
Copyright © David Rushmer 2018
David Rushmer lives and works in Cambridge, UK, and has published artworks and poetry more recently in BlazeVOX, Epizootics, E.ratio, Shearsman, and has work forthcoming in Otoliths. His first full-length collection of poetry, Remains to Be Seen, will be published by Shearsman in 2018. His work previously appeared in Molly Bloom 5 and 8.