Section II (from “nowhereon”)

...short sharp shrill of non-other silence in or of which collapses into broken silences...sediment of lightless of subtle as if to echo no not a...trace non-speech...gnarl of weightless attrition blind of eye till back-step nowhere from...as if to utter collision breath devour in lack of vocal solace no...nothing of in strips it down cold effortless desire for nothing close of wound spill cup dead tone butcher exigent ever...none where from...nowhere on... what on...as if to murmur were to bled it all out from spun begun effortless forgotte...not a...what of...further lapse of lapse into...from out of having in what spoken collapse not of not a trace what of as if to mimicry of night...solace none of meat to erase as if to...fallen to...glance taken from begun yet nothing on...nothing ever...,

...shimmer in dead space of what what matter of...nothing ever to come of it...it of never of pursue...taste dead air as suck down blight taken from aroundelay it on of no...collapse of tide in cerebrum taint...not a... awaken(ed) once...final space of rotting air...foreign tones...nothing of in ever of...bites as it should in hyenic light...no not on...paralysis gestures once more to seek to claim where what is merely silence...

(...smear(ed) dead eye of live once more as if to having where closure dreamt where shadow break stone it break what whispers from cannot...again...no neither of no more having lapse laughter all erased in pit of fecal nothing’s claim nor will there ever be...)

...headless vast opening up into sky & sky alone where break of tint extols upon none ever...silence allwhile... absurdly locked in chamber of decay where fragrant words bite down upon lungtooth of shadow of effortless...onward where & onto what...nowhere to...final as lack of other than given exit sign expose where ever lingers none...in a snare of it...snared bite trace collision with all breath devoured...it is sunlight stricken from what shadow ever...broken fingers...lack of all else..

...not an on as was noted from some desire as if it could be echoed out into...as where blood basks...as where blood basks beneath surface climb in ruthless silence a close(d) fist of tongues...motion no...again colours claimed where eye cannot...blind weight of some slash(ed) out purpose of...neither of nor other than...spit it out lest it be done...a stain of mimicry...of silence(d) disclosure upon nullity...

(...in silence of...then...a wastage of stone light in utter dark...claim upon claim ever forgotten how on...nocturnus breath &...lies from outset onset breach through lapse into from nothing’s cadaver climate...it is lung...bodily of nothing of...a shimmer of teeth in terrain of blood to shed...to yet to on no not...clings to...break bone dense of null...reduce(d) to writhe in shit of in of invisible scars... onward it says no not...it is failed speech ocular in discursive naught...as it goes...as it cannot can merely wait...nowhere of throughout...)

...of till where lung what of closure of wound a kill a broken jaw sufferance...striate of cold echo nothing in no not a of lightless pageantry...nothing ever in what taste till repetition silently absorbed...candle extinguish in a glut of effortless tomorrows that never were nor will ever...say how...what said...slams door shut a window cracked across with echoes of disasters...nothing less to...cold shadow ripple in vibrate of flesh...silently as if ever having known what known in collision bite...none for ever of...eye perceives yet what does it perceive...scattered remnants of what it once was to be...dead light...left to rot in roomscapes where terror circles & onwardly defeat stakes its claim...no not on...nothing on...

...whereby...what which...turns aside of facial lock a burn of following no...skies lapse lack till break of desolate... unsaid of mockery taint a closure of bestow upon...echo echoes of some of which steel ash & breathless overture...collision dense what light foreign exile dreamt of spill of null & void collect of...it dead done as dead done as if to dead to follow...no it says not on...nowhere on to be...nothing of unto...stillness to dredge colours strip(ped) bare denuded black of ice...genuflect of purposeless...ache of desire never having broke stone skin devour lest held in lock of breakage...clamour all then of in where upon as if to exhale through thin air nothing from...skinned of lapse...unspeaking nullity of having ever...no...

...ocular of density seeps in as if in colours bleed where night’s trace throughout cold shadow...screams into where nothing once a scream negate never mark till foreign drift collapse...it is some solace sun negate break from where wind closure of null abound skin(ned) as reckless of devour nothing ever...in reek of pageant slowly slowly building colossus of etched out negated...cascade of repetition...nothing on no further on...not a trace... nowhere on where left to be in burn distance ever...it die what fatal promise...what wilt tongue disclosure eye failing to collect bones bound...invisible black wind... scaling depth of cold chase useless meat...scald of where of no nothing ever of passage throughout unto never having begun sudden as if to trace...what on...no nothing of it...

 

Michael Mc Aloran
Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, prose poetry, poetic aphorisms and prose, including 'Attributes', (Desperanto, NY, 2011), 'The Non Herein' & ‘Of Dead Silences’ (Lapwing Publications, 2011/ 2013), 'Of the Nothing Of’, 'The Zero Eye', 'The Bled Sun', 'In Damage Seasons', (Oneiros Books (U.K)--2013/ 14); 'Code #4 Texts', a collaboration with Aad de Gids, was also published in 2014 by Oneiros. He was also the editor/ creator of the Bone Orchard Poetry zine, & edited for Oneiros Books (U.K 2013/ 2014). Two further collections, 'Un-Sight/ Un-Sound (delirium X.)’ & 'The Banality of Else' were both published by gnOme books (NY, 2014). 'EchoNone' was also released 2015 by Oneiros Books. Black Editions Press also released 'Untitled #2' & '[unspoken]' in 2016, and 'longshadowfall' was published by Editions du Cygne (FR) in 2017. 'Catascope', was also published by Editions du Cygne early in 2018, and two further projects, 'the black vault' & 'all null having', are now published by VoidFront Press... Michael's blog: Against The Dark Distance