UNINFLECTED PARTICLES:

     A SIEVED CAHIER

 

indefinite article	definite article
a baby or a very young child	the amber road
a beginning and then an end and a middle	the amnesty of an amnesiac
a beloved hairstyle	the banality of commerce, neck luck
a bride leaking petals	the burning ship for the dead sent to sea
a bucketed pour over	the circle of one body around nobody
a burial ground for women	the colour of arterial blood
a charm	the condition of it
a city made of waves	the direction of a palm
a cube of glass sinks to lake beds	the fields of empty living rooms, car lobbies
a dancer’s limbs	the French verb attendre
a deluge myth	the fulsome flick
a dark horse	the gap between this and never
a full lower lip	the grill teeth of a step
a galleon full	the hedgehog's dilemma
a game of who's done what with whom	the invisible woman
a group of small	the involvement of stars
a heart condition	the kindly ones
a hinterland	the length of an elementary school
a homophone	the liquid density of sad waters
a ken of keening	the loss of a day or three
a little too much	the lumen, a perceived power of light
a lyric method	the lusatian culture in the early iron age
a manual for identification and care	the methyl mouth vapours
a mutton lamb	the milk line thickening
a newspaper turnover	the moon curve
a thousand year photo	the multiplication table cripples me
a reduction	the one thing I asked
a sad babylonian or assyrian or hibernian	the other's amazing stomach
a salutary sun fetched from the sky	the oval window mount of a daguerreotype
a sensation of falling	the parts of a curve where stroke is thickest
a single freckle	the preference for orchids
a single piece of parchment rolled tightly	the problem of choice
a subset of a subset of a subset	the rate of particles across a given surface
a talisman to guard the bow	the sad phone machine
a test of metal	the scar lateral to my design
a thimble full of tequila	the sickle sweet
a tongue here, a palm, your thigh	the sky
a universe expanding	the sound of voices bent against glass
a vital component of ornamental objects	the suffusion of grief from
a weight of letter darkness	the tenets you adhere to
a well-washed shirt, my shirt	the term infant
a whole season	the territorial pissings
	the thickening of regret
conjunction	the weakening
	the wolf and the cosmonaut
if a beckon	the wrong answer to every question
if a bye bye baby bye bye	the you undone
if I am or am not
if I only had a brain	possessive pronoun
if that means anything to you
if you are not kind	my amazing face
if you cannot name it	my answer
if you love someone	my attributes
if you pretend me frostbit	my black moods
if you put your mind to it	my complacent tongue
if you stay inside	my conversation privileged
if you are going to do this	my cousin Elizabeth says
if we are pulsar	my darkling bright
	my dissolution aching
conjunction	my dream minding
	my dyed liver, the bones of my dead mothers
and a sigh, deep inhalation	my fingers polish topaz
and also to hide from the scrutiny of clergy	my fists let go
and between hiccups	my friends dance up aisles, their faces
and between standing stones	my grandmother’s method for pain
and boundaries of my unclaimed	my grip upon you
and days of no chlorophyll	my happy home
and didn’t mean	my heart bicameral
and dropped from several stories	my heart’s ferment in glass jars
and I meant to call you: but	my knuckles bled
and I tell you she isn’t	my life preserved, tsunami
and laid it out flat	my life!
and let slip	my lost attributes
and make MMMs all over, seagulls	my lungs puffed out cloud silhouettes
and on one foot a shoe	my my eye eye oh yes
and one and two and three	my name unpronounceable
and paper oracles	my neck – the moon
and seems	my own personal Pandora’s box
and smash grapevines into wreaths	my pre-Raphaelite beauty graces endless etc.
and so much more now than then	my presence, the metaphor
and swallow up collapsed linoleum	my reckoned shoulder
and the other bare	my shirt fresh laundered
and then	my throat veiled
and this is hard to explain	my untouched elbow
and tips of teal fireflies	my untranslatable goodness
and vibrate in jaw	my wall of a wall
and water pour over	my weapon can be sword, sickle, pole arm
and when I call, you answer	my worth
and you always told me no
and you never	preposition and particle
preposition	to a lamb’s bleat
	to accurately remember
from across this room	to be reasonable
from april until ice	to burn for
from her fingers	to claim solace from stars
from my hands	to count dimes
from pulp paper, a brittle baked	to crack an egg
from the craters on Io	to do and places to be
from the slightest movement	to encompass a thimble
from the start	to erase the merest
from your shoulder, the ways of stepping	to go
	to goddess or vegetation or pretty ghost
preposition	to heal tissue
	to hear one melted syllable
of a bitch in heat	to hope and lose all coherence
of a bracket worn over then pushed	to illustrate the depths
of a bridge rising above it	to just about manage
of deeds done	to know your bones are made of water
of a dowry	to mail your little flame
of a name	to make it all better
of dams or sudden loss	to matter to you
of dyed pulp wood and gardenias in bloom	to my continued
of each leaf through vein	to my head and sent diagonal
of escape velocity	to nubs, flat pitched
of ever evolving colour, no temperance	to orbit
of five year old girl with fists	to realise
of grief	to realise you’d rather
of holding onto a stem	to rose, to mahogany, the elegant slide
of invisibility	to say I’m stake-bound
of it stops, that doing	to silhouette a bookmark
of kicking it	to singular
of lake ice, what a mess	to use ‘the dead’
of light, set on the tips of the fingernails	to veil my throat, that you
of long dead insects, the Baltic kind, forms	to walk the whole way home
of magazine covers in the rain, pulp mash	to wander
of me, my prescient character
of niceties, of greeting
of no artistic significance
of no purpose
of passive joy
of pure architecture
of sea
of thumbs
of us across tree lines
of warmth rising
of water pressure