Gargoyles Table
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
– Macbeth: Act 1, Scene 1
The pit of my gut
is a bubbling
cauldron of missing
children, faces of
victims as the blade
goes into soft raw
pomegranate flesh
all clamoring for
the archangels sun
and getting nowhere
my own voice screams at
the horror of it
such foul wretched masks
competing for a
soured place at the
gargoyles table
I’m the old face that’s
tainted forever
I’m the old face that’s
shunned in my bell
tower solitude
the fires that rage
I don’t put out, nor
would I want too for
they are company
He Did Not Rise
An Agnostics Prayer
How did Jesus die?
On a crucifix
like a museum
artifact, wax work
with a crown of thorns?
In tulips with a
wreath of date palms? In
thirst, trying to lick
his wounds to quench that
blossoming lily
that pooled in roses
on Golgotha’s soil?
No, as a man in
wild daylight that sang
out with a cracking
chariot of bones
lost in a refuse
sea blazing with a
cat’s eye in silence,
guiltless as a song
of love. This petal,
stripped after the kill
and beaten again
as if he would rise
and appear in their
rooms at blue midnight.
No, he did not rise
out of the frogspawn
with honeyed pubic
hair, leave him angels,
leave him be for he
did not rise in a
milky morning’s light,
he did not rise in
the dust of Adam.
girls in the machine
all those made redundant girls
are immigrants in this land
with lavender dollhouse cups,
dried sunflowers in the tea.
all those lost girls wandering
the back alleys, motorways,
petrol stations and fast food
dives, nobody notices.
all those come to bed eyed girls
are not there, all those hollow
boned girls that took flight for far,
far yonder. Those common bread
girls are as thin as a slice,
wholemeal apparitions.
My Second Father is an Armada
My second father
Is an armada
Recounting his steps
In billowing sails,
In his empty arms.
In the Bosom
A Soldier Comes Home, script by Dylan Thomas – a Ministry of Information film
The train’s headlamp searching through the glooms knit,
Home is a plucked cherry orchard, downstream
Of the place once knew whose throat has been slit.
Under the bed library books, spines split,
Returned alone with the horizon’s scheme,
The train’s headlamp searching through the glooms knit.
Through remembered lanes, through the closed breath nit
Alleys, into the bombed wide whipping cream
Of the place once knew whose throat has been slit,
To a bazaar of council bushes that sit
Among railings of a chewed beetle seam,
The train’s headlamp searching through the glooms knit.
Hollow cobblestones do a moonlight flit,
Sea shell church yards haven’t got an incense beam
Of the place once knew whose throat has been slit.
Reading a map with a cigarette lit
For a homecoming, bright as bronze wrapped steam,
The train’s headlamp searching through the glooms knit
Of the place once knew whose throat has been slit.
Grant Tarbard is the chief editor at The Screech Owl. I have worked as a journalist, a contributor to magazines, a reviewer and an interviewer.
My poems have featured in a number of compendiums, including Dogma Publishing’s Miracle at St. Bede’s. Also, I have had poems exhibited at my local gallery a number of times as well as at the Quayside gallery in Maldon, Essex. I came first runner up at the age of sixteen in Ottakar’s National Poetry Competition with a poem entitled Delicacy and won The Poetry Box Dark & Horror Poetry Magazine’s Sinister Poetry Award May 2014 for his poem Crows Feet.
My first collection ‘Yellow Wolf’ is being published by WK Press.
Ness, thank you for posting this poem! I love the coenpct, and love the approach.My one suggestion would be to give the reader an image or metaphor in the absence of either, this is far less powerful than it could be less poetic. Would love to see any future versions! :-)Miriam
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