17 March 2025
whoomph/whoomph
am
amp amph amphi theatre?
phetamine?
woman with snake round her neck in
art gallery not an exhibit just
looking
round prospero’s
sly land
how i wish i could hang on your wall
quell, stir a storm
round your cold shore
your warm shoulders, your
gateway to other
anticipations
now you’re talking
indeed there was a large red
box with no one in it
the big square red
lid haphazard beside
your offer, yep
to take a bite, it might
be the easier alternative
to the angel’s fiery
sword, the condition
for love’s possibility*
*Mike Brock in A Treatise on Love: Love, the tightrope, and the flood Notes from the Circus 11 March 2025; from the sentence ‘This is why exile from Eden was necessary – not as punishment, but as the condition for love’s possibility.’