Eratio


 

 

 

An explication of three Light Age texts

 

Peter Kenny

 

 

 

 

(i) The love light in her eyes

 

 

hominid mates were enticed

with extraordinary ocular organs

whose retinae housed photoemitting cells

 

(remember: in the abyss

certain fauna still emit light

when they feed and spawn)

 

the male, ready to breed,

and there: a fertile female with

The love light in her eyes

 

the male arrives

drawn by phosphorescence

from solitude, profundity

 

 

 

 

(ii)  MADE IN CHINA

 

 

the glyph or inscription is hidden

inside the hollowed

representation of a hominid skull

 

thermoformed from

polymers, fillers, stabilisers,

and (we surmise) pigments

 

disinterred near the body

of a pre-fertile female

in the friable substrate

 

a fetish object with individuated strands 

and mobile, reflective representations

of photosensitive organs

 

apex of their tactile art

offered to the deities

they imagined would find it

 

 

 

 

(iii) LOST. Beautiful tabby cat answers to name Lucy

 

 

image indicates nocturnal quadruped

extinct species 9: Lucy

 

thought to be totemic

 

LOST.

 

a complex ideational cluster, impossible to gloss,

where being was predicated on ownership

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Kenny writes plays, poems and libretti.  He is also a creative director and writer working with healthcare and humanitarian organisations.  His latest postmodern comedies, A Glass of Nothing and We Three Kings, ran at The Marlborough Theatre Brighton December 2016.  His latest poetry pamphlet is The Nightwork from Telltale Press.  Peter Kenny is online at PeterKenny.co.uk

 

 


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