body – restructured as a book of dis-ease,
pushed away, silent bombs – letters
crawling through the mouth, blackwards.
An army of be this or
that
pounding
pain, preening itself. A
crow on the tower of heads, plucking
a mass
of cyanide against polyrhythmic whispers, pages to
unread to body's greatest strength –
a switch point, a shiver
on cold horizons
and sex.
Death,
I used to cling
to the bed of your bleached
teeth, wanting
to negate the resemblance
of the teeth in the being within.
Wanting to sculpt plush pillow
locket for my tiredness, its
empty sound echoing like sweet
night music.
Death,
my dream's clock is set in
future, where I still look for it,
aping the spiral walk of my waking
hours,
where I think
I have let go of my hoping.
I was born of a simple word:
Die. Now I am
flowing through the river of black
roses and sticky dust. Silence is rotting
at the edges of my tongue. Strange
birds are rising on horizon, pushing
forth a thin, broken Sun,
it's belly is full of lies, but how shimmering
they are! Falling down on the stairs with small
tickling sounds. I see their sanity,
I see their dark God at the end of it. I see
that beautiful absence of His Light shading
His lethargic body,
He is never going to move, except the suffocating
rain from His dreadful eyes down to each and every
flesh, to all corners of bones, swallowing their softness.
He was born of a simple word:
Live.
Petra Whiteley was born in Czech Republic but England has been her home since 1993. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction which appeared in many webzines (i.e. Apt, Danse Macabre, ditch, The Recusant, Weirdyear). She was a regular writer for the Glasgow Review, Eleutheria and Osprey. Her poetry and literary criticism also appeared in print magazines (i.e. The Plebian Rag, Essence). Petra's reviews of CDs and interviews with musicians regularly appear in Reflections of Darkness. Her poetry collections are The Nomad's Trail (Ettrick Forest Press, 2008), The Moulding Of Seers (Shadow Archer Press, 2009), Exhibition Of Defined Moments (erbacce-press, 2011) and The Liquid Metropolis (erbacce-press, 2012).
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