Laurie Duggan

 
Michael Andrews
 
What if all the people you think you know
were just spots of light on canvas?




William Dyce
 
It is October 5th 1858,
Donati’s Comet visible
 
east off the Kent coast
at Pegwell Bay
 
(a precise date
and an angle)
 
‘one of the most
beautiful objects
 
that I have ever seen’,
bright for its century
 
and the fine weather,
bare smudges of cloud
 
the figures, observed
one evening months before,
 
collect shells and fossils,
oblivious to the future event





Eduardo Paolozzi
 
when Popular Mechanics meets Intimate Confessions
the human body becomes an assemblage:
 
kiss me quick, squeeze me slow
translates as the bright, clean future

Copyright © Laurie Duggan 2017

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Laurie Duggan's most recent book is No Particular Place To Go (Shearsman 2017). He made a previous appearance in Laurie DugganMolly Bloom 9. He swears he is not responsible for the death of Chuck Berry.