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  • Home
  • About/Submissions
  • Masthead
  • Featured Poets Series
    • 3 poems by Chris Prewitt
    • 3 poems by Taylor Byas
    • 3 Poems by David Hanlon
    • 3 poems by Bailey Grey
    • 2 Poems by Seán Griffin
    • 1 Poem by Jarrett Moseley
    • 3 Poems by Hannah Cajandig-Taylor
  • Issues
    • Issue 1
    • Issue 1.5: Hozier-inspired
    • Issue 2
    • Issue 3: Recovery
    • Issue 3.5: Lana Del Rey
    • Special Summer Solstice Prose Issue
    • Issue 4.1
    • Issue 4.2
    • Still Standing
Riffs on Abjection
 
Take this as a
resignation letter,
            touching through the
hands of all who would
doubt its potency. A curse
does not begin to cover it
(for that you need a
common policy). There
is more beyond it speaks to /
more beyond that
            understands it / and
at the end of the day, what
else are you going to do
at your age, after all?
 
            If ‘desire is what’s
                        non-human in man’
            (that’s a paraphrase)
            you’ve really got to
                        ask yourself
            what it’s all about. I
            can’t hazard a guess /
            can only clean up
            after you / but for now
                        there is at least
            this reassuring piece
            of whatever it’s called these days:
            “Where man is not, nature is barren”
            and nature now is exactly as it seems.

Matthew Andrews is a writer and musician from Norwich, UK, where he too rarely gives readings. His work has appeared in Rockland, Caliper, and pamphlets from his own Soviet District Press (as the sequence Ars Felixium and collection of early poems One Age Work-House). Some of his poetry can be found at sovietdistrict.com.
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