the subtle flavouring of fish
teserrae of names
dull mustard
fiery gold flames
organics of mushroom tea
gaudy/ Gaudi/ lace/ paste
St Audrey/ rust/ blood/ lace
yes, tawdry lace
….I can use that.
round and round
the mulberry bush
oranges/ bees/ fish/
old chain letter/ old
poems stuck together/
spermed-together/
cum-came/ come on!
books unaltering of anything/
but the subtle flavouring of fish -
dom/dominatrix/domestic goddess/
cook-stuff/ cock-stuff //really // cock-stuff/
who knows
what goes
on where/ the/
rosey- poesie/
poetry muses/ lie ?
butterfly-netted the
bee-priestess/poetess
black veiled/ butterfly-swoop
unguarded/ungirded/
girdled//corsetted//cosseted/
our bee-keepers are impotent
poetess/priestess jiggle your
tits /make soup/ and I thought
I need more meat than this to feed my brain,
words of madness /of bloodletting/
vein of salts/salts in the blood-wounds/
of those who... (know)
lady take my hand/
let us go to the bare
birthing room/ the death-room/
the room of whispers/screams/ some agony of death is here/
clean kitchens /jeyes fluid/orange savlon/wounds/salted/stitched
cif //blood// eggs/ spare me the details of the subtle flavouring of fish - please
Christine Murray is a City and Guilds qualified stone-cutter. Her poetry is published in Ropes Magazine, Crannóg Magazine, The Burning Bush Online Revival Meeting (Issue 1), Carty's Poetry Journal, Caper Literary Journal, CanCan (WurminApfel), Bone Orchard Poetry, Women Writers Women Books, Southword Literary Journal, and the Diversity Blog (PIWWC, PEN International Women Writer's Committee). Her chapbooks include Three Red Things (Smithereens Press, 2013) and Signature (Bone Orchard Press 2014). Her first full-length collection was published by Lapwing Press in 2013. In the same year, a dark tale called The Blind (Poetry) was published by Oneiros Books. Her second book-length poem She was published in Spring 2014 by Oneiros Books.