the absurd fade

Michael Mc Aloran

forthcoming 3 April 2025

…flourish of the sun's ache light it bringeth to the edge of teaming stillness to bear to sudden disavowal colours sleep of the deprivate all sung what sung nothing of the detritus cold chamber lock of cellar of this burnt bones buried in the rags of terse ablaze you seek yet you cannot nothing of the settled ash the crack & destitute of all what spoken of striate dense winds colours abandoned...

(…into the darkness obscurity & the obscene bitter pips of which into collapsed into what from nothing of the benign to absorb...as the teeth of the night absorb the passage sudden of in which through utterance dragging a corpse through crowded streets sing Ave nothing of the matter/ long gone forget it as if is the nectar of...)

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excerpt-

…warp black light of bones of cascade into one of the other as if to meld in hallucinogenic exile brought to the once of all time in spit broke fade of terse reject of to wherefrom dead but neither of the abandoned light given to dream/ arrested swarm of traces passage through zero’s eye unto haven where a colossus of abdicate din as once blood black embers a trickle of blood runs from the edge of the mouth to stain the outstretched vulture’s wing/ rat culture nothing closure breakage ever of/ shit-reek torn tongue torn out breakage nullify…dead stone block ashen blood sequential absolute skulled lest of havoc light prey solace etch meat stricken collide ask of in forget once oceanic bled dry nothing marrow zero complex outset breakage long stretch coil fleshed unleash bitter null absent dawn null of sun across which smear unknowable cataract dead tone eclipse it silhouette beyond static null & void nothing as before recalls the silence of never having been…in-repetition of that which kindly kill the solace breath of ache one times thrice amber depth collision once cold status ache drained film circuit bones blacken by desire for the ever of of the beyond of which cannot closure spectral amber as repeat depth-staunch bones to caress in given light of electric blood rhetoric a paralysis of nothing ever cold gestures staunch the wound till dream of lacerate of torn skyline ache of which dead silences a crack & till of warped bone frenzy arrestation given unto spastik spat sever cast aside another/ another/ etch another edge…

(…repeat after/ once of the severance of the twice of the eviscerate of the blind bask in solace of utter dark given emergent sky of braille white lapse of light collision meld all sung for the blade to collect the haven bone marrow’s blood a secrecy a term an ache of desire of blindness of the words to have ever once collect of the banquet echoes that define the sound of the garotte some distance yes to carry…)

(…repeat after/ as if to follow blindlight breathless reform collectively asked of spat through with drought a circuit nothingness of haven as if from naught collective bone fracture light asked of non-spoken as if to call upon long hour demise effortlessly shock black abort travail of empty psalms neither of the palms that dress meat bone selective shadowed by oculate desire of the final edge gnaw what onward into specious lack as sickness tread oblivion of dread a wreckage where to invert is to silence gripped stone solace never as before nor once…)

(…repeat after/ as was of till laughter socket sabotage redukt all ash it-done nectar blood desire of deep edge of night’s silence rapturite absolve of null tear teeth bare blood let as flesh as of nil of which breakage solace driven dark all collide nothing of the matter/ walls ablaze with nectar harvest escapade as was once till driven ever as before it-of/ silenced/ -of…)

ISBN 978-1-916541-13-9