Michael Mc Aloran - Four Poems

Vacant-


breaking shadow

the corrupt sky bleeding


dust upon flesh


night's cancerous steel

as silence


a pathway of skinned flesh

of wasted tears


to water the dead earth of

the dead


dissolved light

a rape of seedless sound


maggot of existential

dissidence


flexed corpse of the sun


in my dreaming

I die


I die vacant


I die



Porcelain-


naked


a burst wound

of shimmering sky


the transparent wind

desolate the hunger


feverish gilded silence of the flesh

usurped


heart of bile

heart black as the night's sky


venom tooth


cracked porcelain smiles

eating away the fingers to the core


the marrow

spilling across the silent breast



Final-


shattered glass

broken cum locked ice held


the veined film of the sky

a quivering hand


an open wound


silence of eternal stone

the flesh grinds upon final flesh


earthen dense with blood

the disfigured light pulsing in a bare


white womb of roomscape


existence stripped bare its burning nothingness

words denuded of life as a silent corpse


echoes...


striated murmurs of

streaked opulent intricacy


a pageantry of flesh a scattering of fresh orchids


the deft hand caresses the un-birthed flesh

in a fruition of razorblades


spitting out the hollow skin

a broken sky-locket of final tears in dirt



Devour-


hollow


absent


traced by

the wind


soundless

I retch


a glimmer

of avaricious

light


searing the

atrocity of

the sky


sickened unto

headless bellowing


I tear my skin

to shreds


with laughter


the bruised fruit

of my eyes


I devour



Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His most recent work has appeared/ is forthcoming in Danse Macabre, The Gloom Cupboard, Clockwise Cat, Heavy Bear. In the past year he has authored five chapbooks: 'In the Black Cadaver Light', (Poetry Monthly Press), 'The Rapacious Night', (Calliope Nerve Media), 'The Redundant Pulse', (Back Pack Press-forthcoming), 'The Gathered Bones', (Calliope Nerve Media-forthcoming), and also 'The Death-Streaked Air', (Virgogray Press-forthcoming)...Other pursuits include cigarettes, alcohol, and paint...