Michael McAloran - Five Poems

of endless/-

anointed heart/
                        fallen of/
till absence

escapade none
(I-con
          cave)

spun alack/ out of which/ one hand extracting the skeletal of
beneath the meat of sun’s light

dusts of char
rocking the dead limbs of the sky’s excise

a mortuary trace
breath/ sky/ nothing less than

I/ (hop-scotch)
in the sharpened teeth of 

endless/ 
                                                  night


abounding-

(in)skin of none/
                  embers    final

and the balk of
despair’s cleft/ obscene

the dregs the taste of swollen eyes
(O)piated

the fields close around the throat of fist
I/ 
    left to scarring

redolent
of the breath irredeemable

trading bone dice
for shadow’s bound and winds to know

I spy/ kaleidoscope
the infinite

I am of the none/ stun abounding



mimicry-

viper earth/ theatre of…
grave(n)/ 
         vault of

unspoken death of a cataract skyline
I alone/
               spun lock until

in the traces of bled dry
     ever-less

the ever-less of

the collapsed bones of purpose
salve of the un-being

I of the whispering/ 
                           said less

the better said the more of which from less till follow
on from

the candle extinguished
a garrotted throat

and bled neck of foreign
posing no…

all distances/ 
                the mimicry of…



of emptily-

of the ambiguity… 

taut till dredge/
                      terse/ abound

and the cracked scar whispering of
clean/ the slate wiped clear

I/ eye of
       the retract

motion through which of cold stone
the eye’s afflict

bone dredge
never once the tilt of breathing

shock-white light/ I
lineage of 

restless blood in catacomb of emptily
shadowing/ 

         of nothing



subtle as-

I 
      in/
        abattoir
subtle as subtle butchery
I-teethed to the steel 
as if to/
fallen caress of sky’s erupt
cadaver of
abyss of stitches


I 
     in/
       abattoir
fallen caress of sky’s erupt
as if to
subtle as/ subtle butchery
I-teethed to the steel
abyss of stitches
cadaver of






Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). His most recent work has appeared  in ditch, Meat Songs, Gobbet Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, Ygdrasil, etc. He has authored a number of chapbooks, including 'The Gathered Bones', (Calliope Nerve Media), 'Final Fragments', (Calliope Nerve) & 'Unto Naught', (Erbacce-Press). A full length collection of poems, 'Attributes', was published by 'Desperanto' in 2011. 'Lapwing Publications, (Ireland), will also be publishing a collection of his poems, 'The Non Herein', in 2012. Writing Knights Press has recently released another chapbook, 'Breath(en) Fall' & The Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, (U.K), will release 'Emblems' and also an ekphrastic book of text/ art, 'Machinations' later this summer.