Experimental

Issue #5

Happy Happening

The feeling is the cloud a foggy lid different shapes interchange


The threat of rain suspending the gap in the lake


And so here it is, as a potential loops and catches the record


Pulling the plug on a drawing of a cuckoo (maybe)


Those short steps in time, at least, that take things we should do from within


A whirring fan, hands upon hands, everything lost wasting time


It’s so scary to bowl along blind, biting darkness for an answer


Against the old lamp, that unexpected passage that goes


Snip snip snip, its wholes parting to execute sensation


Graffiti wall, violet tongue


Somewhere between an institution and a flash in the pen


So we fall the fall of administration in the direction of our wound


Sky black confetti in the sky committing ourselves


A buried sleepless time like instinct steeped in a honey of history


As we repeat: How can I swallow if I can’t make a digest?


You took away my teeth, you giraffe-loving dentist!


A wrong turn has taken its hold

Walking inside the pavement to save time


Playing golf with the mind of a whole hog


I joined up your dots and drew myself an ellipse


Laughing, a basket of ways out of the situation


Sure the mud is thick in here but has not yet happened to make us happy


There! A history already rich in chance


Hiding in the lego blocks of the woods


Where all the Apache arrows direct you back to the wonder of your chest


Yes, you were all so keen it seemed so rubbish not to


 


[When it occurred to them, Ellen, George, Asha, Alex, Cat, Sam, Debbie, Rebecca, Jessica, Helen, Natasha, Eleanor, Katie, Rebecca, Sarah, Josephine, Mark, Tom and Ben were happy to put their names to this feeling ]

Ellen Bell, George Waite, Asha Rogers, Alex Saunders, Cat Cheese, Sam Newton, Debbie Mlejnecky, Rebecca Wilson, Jessica Mayes, Helen Ingram, Natasha Bell, Eleanor Andrew, Katie Lawson, Rebecca Jones, Sarah Tapscott, Josephine Gibbons, Mark Richardson, Tom Heginbotham, Ben Dorey