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14x14 cm, 16 pages, 250 gsm "Natural" Strata card cover with colour illustration, hand sewn with green twist. ISBN 1 903090 28 8 Click here for Randolph Healy's Real Audio reading, with full text, of Daylight Saving Sex. Click here to read Robert Archambeau's interview with Randolph Healy at the Notre Dame Review website. Click here to read Robert Archambeau's article on Randolph Healy at the Read.me website. |
a man who dreamed he was a
clock saw blue
in a wasp's nest on the side
of a skyscraper
not bones as a document dancer
antagonist growing back to
front, head to tail, trunk
to appendage, proximal to distal
ticking an archetype against
the index music and yeast in
a race with no outcome a going
concern fist finger five
were you aware of the precise moment of release?
the
weber as the unit of magnetic flux
small
abrasions as a consequence of sex
Disgust: the alaeque nasi muscle raises the upper
lip pulling
the skin around the nose and causing the nostrils
to dilate.
dom duit dó di
prepositional pronouns
ar an mbord
eclipsis
every day
my heart sinking
closer to my shoes
"what's the use?"
asked the beer-bellied youth
in the bright orange shirt
flogging me a mobile phone
I was struck
hearing Meg Bateman read, baby on hip,
to a room packed with English
- they insisting on the Gaelic
and hugely enjoying it
laughing at the odd Marks and Spencer's and so on -
struck by its uselessness
gratuitousness
grace
not the ní tír gan teanga
(no language no nation) drill
grace
maternity dress paternity suit
telomerase:
a micro-fountain
sex and cancer cells forever young
Though nothing is true forever. Which if true
must
eventually become false. Unless the one who makes
it never
uses it and the one who buys it doesn’t want
it and the one
that uses it never knows they're using it.
woman's work
jobs for the boys