Three Line Whip
Paul A. Green
browned milk was very ambient
blitz kids in corridor
passing out our snow guns
tanked phallus in ersatz wand formation
croaked root computed loss factor
a stained madrigalist fired
lamposts falling
red pictures of rockets
you’ve lost your deposit
white greasy that crowning thrust/thrust
a trick of boring
absence in cycled years@years
no the memories pattern
reddening much
neck muscle withering
all over syntax is all over
breaking out the big wine
nude cellophane worlds
beauty as best beast
an instant feathered green
memory grass
droplets magma
the jerk of the annexe
speeds blood
its sapience poor performance
slap dung earth cleave
more sacred lumps
brownish milk is very ambient
I’m being thought
a small bearded confederate
underlining in narrow pencil
‘those were good lives, my son’
but the blankets were smelling
it was 1956
his rage (orange)juice was curdling
‘you’ll do as you’re told’
he had to convince himself
it was good by casting lots
his blood was up
they should have had some sort of regulator
to improve sifting the journals
where figures glisten so horny
whatever the weave the product whistles along
and I’m getting sentimental over your
produce of white letters
but the technique can also be cammed
to keep this dad gummed pastiche
in the face of their manure
exactitudes — exactly!
tiring longitudes
wind howls/rain feels
could you ask for anything?
shafted by a thick core
I’m being thought
goats might perceive all this
in yellow monochrome
great distinctions need dyno-typing
the flow of mica window into metal edge of a furnace
and wrinkles for a Christmas morning
late Friday extended for travellers along the dune latrines
a landing in 1951
gas heater and afternoon-light
for storage only
the Chinese discobolus
whistling up a whopper
not more sacred lumps
sprockets will do
a leotard doesn’t
bring the world to your door
Paul A. Green’s poetry collections include The Gestaltbunker (Shearsman Books 2012) and Shadow Times (QBS Publications 2019). He has also written speculative fiction, like The Qliphoth (Libros Libertad 2007) and Beneath the Pleasure Zones I & II (Mandrake of Oxford 2014/2016). His dramas for radio and stage have been published in Babalon and Other Plays (Scarlet Imprint 2015). He lives in the UK in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. Paul A. Green is online at paulgreenwriter.co.uk.