Peter Manson. Birth Windows.

Between the freedom of thin air and lyric self-inspissating, a language which conceives freshly the modern synthesis of wit and agony while tracking their split also to moments of intimacy and robust panic.

1-903488-12-5. 1999. 24 pp.
OUT OF PRINT: These poems are now collected in For the Good of Liars.

from 'Lancer's Gap'

True (late) how tack is so little repeat
on a scale thousands wide one lapse /
cycle the same dots tenfold, patient
as breaking honey

fining temper away

clear to the drain vessel, the hip-bone
of song-hollows merits a sampler tune:
wit break sign of felicity pump inner-drumskin
beyond which light arcs in cilia may flower wrongly.

O cambium arras in a ring threatened by blue roadkill
graft on a Camperdown elm these monkeying bronchi /
imagine we dot the j too long ripening medlar.

Ancestors of the common throat meant this

once only, snaking a crest

out from the heart still subject to insect damage

to a bare sky

safe in the habit of real enmity
that bends.

Also by Peter Manson:

iter atur e. Writers Forum 1995. 32pp. £2. ISBN 0 86162 570 6. A booklet of 28 computer-generated black-and-white visuals.

me generation. Writers Forum 1997. 20pp. £1.50. ISBN 0 86162 803 2. Unclassified verbal and visual work. available from Writers Forum, 89a Petherton Road, London N5 2QT.

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