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.
