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The world hand begins again (gold bloc no. 1)
and the gold shipment begins in the mauve HQ
and the writing is on the wall (gold bloc no. 1)
as a mauve signal is intercepted (called 'the cypher')
You must leave this place the gold colonel is saying
(and the gold colonel is spring) the air is unbelievably mild
but the mauve troops say 'February', like 'slaughter'
(mauve bloc no. 1)
(mauve bloc no. 1)But it is the world hand (the writing) beginning again
the writer insists (gold cathode) (mauve annode)
and these electrics are real (gold scum) (mauve cream)
Five Blood Divisions from the Yellow Emperor were on their way
and the heart–heart road through contested country
slowly filled with K. (with M.) with T. refugees
(mauve grief)
Gold smoke from gold fires rolled slowly over gold dead
The cold colonel was summer (our last summer)
and in lack of affects the jade general's telegram was despatched
Soon no narrative would save us
(mauve embargo)
(scarlet division)The borders changed hourly (you must believe in this place
the mauve general was saying)
The heart–heart road was literal, then cut
I love you, and I know that you don't love me, and that's okay — we have
the children, I still (red intercept) feel lucky you're so
'Gold baker, mauve bread' was a saying in that time of vapour
(a red mouth was opening)
(red blockade)
(red blockade)The black filter begins again (the gold codex, the mauve interpretation)
and the ordered units await a new command
It suddenly becomes close, the world, intimate
like the dainty nails on my writing hand (turquoise writer,
grey propaganda)
The Spectrum God invaded with a thousands prisms (gold stratagem)
hovers above the colour-coded text
and a Butterfly God (mauve feint)
with trembling wings (red arrest) lay upon the leaf
like a collapsed Giotto (European strain)
(red curfew)
(mauve rout)
Copyright © Michael Ayres, 2003.
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