how to hang a
                    split to pit that
wretched bulb
                    bulging in one’s eye
line head height
                    bespoke addictions a simple worm
in the architecture
                    love me love my hate dog
a sullen sip of
                    disciplined testing
of a vintage
                    vintage better bettered only the next
time around

 

 

toughen things
                    into their special
apportioned proportion
                    a speck of timeless
dated innocent angst
                    guides in dissolves to
a hair in the gate
                    what are your bounds
your grounds so solid
                    to run your duty on
batch it hawk it
                    quick
over the border

 

Copyright © Scott Thurston, 2005.

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Scott Thurston lives in Liverpool and teaches at the University of Salford. His first major collection, Hold, was published by Shearsman Books in February 2006.