ALT Front cover of Cloudlets in hardback

ALT A black and white photo of clouds over moorland

ALT A black and white photo of clouds over fields

ALT A photo of the first page of Cloudlets

ALT ICARUS IN THE AFTERBODY Spent on the wine of language, brightness dims as I sip. Unslept, I come upon Icarus, face-down, suspended in a hammock of invisible red thread— hung taut between unfinished sentences and an ash-field of limbs. As before, mitochondria fold their fogged orbits into eclipse. The remainder of jouissance.

ALT Tracklist: Eleonora Kampe - Dream Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - r(OP-OP) (excerpt) Tara Clerkin Trio - Ups & Downs Klein - bridge the gap Dean Blunt - 10 Martha MacLaren - hope Marianne Joyce - Coffee & Rings Ear - Amsterdam mary in the junkyard - New Muscles David Lynch - On High Now Angelo Badalamenti - Dark Low Space Stars of the Lid - Music For Twin Peaks Episode #30, Part I Dean Hurley - Girl Appears / Black Smoke David Lynch - Polish Poem (with Chrysta Bell) Au Revoir Simone - Lark Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Chill Air

ALT Sailing (off Gull Rock)   a grey comma unsews the blue off Nare Head black-eyed hush then under— my own eye, gone tidal

ALT Tracklist: Eleonora Kampe - Dream Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - r(OP-OP) (excerpt) Tara Clerkin Trio - Ups & Downs Klein - bridge the gap Dean Blunt - 10 Martha MacLaren - hope Marianne Joyce - Coffee & Rings Ear - Amsterdam mary in the junkyard - New Muscles David Lynch - On High Now Angelo Badalamenti - Dark Low Space Stars of the Lid - Music For Twin Peaks Episode #30, Part I Dean Hurley - Girl Appears / Black Smoke David Lynch - Polish Poem (with Chrysta Bell) Au Revoir Simone - Lark Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Chill Air

ALT What a line can do One line can bloodwake
a bruised spirit – starve winterdark
with truth-tongued verse; kindle a dawn
of stanza-born light.

ALT Sisyphus, Unfortunately                             a piano uphill,
            They push                           Sisyphus with better hats.               But the piano disagrees.   Left, they push.
                        Right, it rolls. 
                        A duet in gravity.             
                                    Laurel slips;
                                                Hardy follows—                         entropy in bowlers.               (a pause)                           At the summit,
                                    they breathe.                           The piano rolls                                     back down.                           Again, says Laurel.               Below, Sisyphus
                        checks his watch,                                     sees the piano coming –                                                               and ducks.

ALT Dear Sasha windtalking
through potato skins decoding fingerprints—   blue wing rises
  grieffeathers slip
  towards memory-silt shore each wrinkle left
unrepaired

ALT EARLIER NOW   Greenish constellations
touched with rust 
colonise the corner
of the window frame.   Curtain at half-mast
rehearsing the dark.   Sycamore key smudged
against glass.   The last halo of evening
is earlier now.   Already autopsied,
the light obscures her face 
as if it knows
where her sun will set.

ALT P R O P H E T I C I M A G I N I S T unthrottle the unborn-seeing burst through reality-rigged thought-clots— flood dream-droughts with unfenced possibility keep the betterworldgift unkillably seedwild

ALT YHWH Nailgun - Tear Pusher ear - F Lowertown - (I Like to Play With) Mutts feeble little horse - Dior klein - c thru me e3d1-6a45-4055-c787-5642d2a54234 - f6bi-8d23-4e11-9a77-3c5f2e8d9041 Spiritual Symptoms - Redacted (excerpt) Spencer Clark - LORD OF EXTERIOR PERCEPTIONS PASSAGE OF DECAY_1 Matt Krefting - An Eye on the Future Strange Devicers - This Delicate Signia Tim Olive - MT-5 EURONET - Ashes to Acid (excerpt) Ramleh - Bite the Bolster T Jervell - new hope Tart - Radio Orange Isolated Community - Shoreswood: High Frequency Direction Finder (Huff-Duff) Mount Eerie - Khaela Maricich and Phil Elvrum (the Thunderclouds) rehearsing "Don't Worry Baby" by the Beach Boys on the Silvertone chord organ. Late February 1999