Georgina Colby is a poet and academic with interests in the politics of avant-garde poetry, small press publishing, and contemporary forms of ekphrasis. She is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at theUniversity of Glasgow. Her books include Kathy Acker: Writing theImpossible (EUP, 2018), and, as editor, Her Silver-Tongued Companion:Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen (EUP, 2024) and Reading Experimental Writing (EUP, 2019). She is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster.
the University of Westminster.
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an empty glass
osteo blast angular silhouettes
rising scape & fractured in shadow yet
penetration removes frame work figurative
anaesthesia too abstract begging physical
questions. medium.
the arc of your feet too often in tandem
with the bloodless genesis of thalatta
bridge
the fright of a muscular tetrahedron bare
as the footsteps that border triviality life
approximates demands of citizenship
whilst labial plinths secrete indivisibly
paradigmatic presence clawing being
bodies silenced
concrete [come here]
chain
we were all told that epidermal conduct
could, and should, be galvanised that
saturated ethics muddy reflexes watch,
we were told, watch for the lathe
asymmetry beating on glass blind in
the twilight pulverizing fractions
before the moths lay their eggs
line
our love is lobe-finned, neural crested even
as the fence communicates uncertainty and
it’s all called out, called out as base
monochromatic sclera
still, the cube is transparent the
cartilage disruptive fluidity is only
imitation when your breath reaches
ours and the newspaper is pushed
too far through the door
peel
as much as the lime sprays folds
castings into shade in the kitchen your
words can only ever be precise
indeterminacies switching codes
blocking yellow distinctions In the
bedroom tensile light eclipses
omissions and we beat on
as rhythmic cadences
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