Steve Bucknell's articles

Side Side mass one side rolled at pieces sentient lotions should be moved on by a careful touch marking the seeming distinction inside the offer which had been tentative in the first transition Used beneath heavy and quiet conditions could temporarily insist on there being suspended evened is where any other will repair in some way the damaged materials left by the eroded Otherwise motion blending which makes any movement easier than befo…

Tend Tend energy vitiate until softened merge only then alter the account praised foot feet shuffle the motes riffle the hedge row backwards traffic melting lately shown showing signals Apparently requires shoes reflective substance torn from an album for sake shuttle that velleity back under curled rim emended emanates from x via y in zigzag pattern the mute Swan probably just erased too much light you could or they might not want a meniscus…

Consign Consign and other food a quality of scene relaxation inverse to the cusp defence we fail to happen statistics show lilac curators have more indolence than purpose is missing so far good made dignity Key though that would be pushing flecks soothing the iridescence found coating your thinning places the slight lift shows indulgence shows give if giving were a way until all the clothes were collected Not that entirely for my sake or your kind of…

Pour weight reply between roads syncing to the surface doubted space and speed or by instinct lean forwards some tension seen altering the effects the Foley spliced here there could feel all day Intense drift curb and open flare and retreat if necessary submit other than that other than before meeting the source the source may be absent from the pleats rays touches their unstable type Talk releasing the leveraged alludes slide from the direction you p…

Recreation Recreation built half steps trips major minor transactions sentient bandages warped around smiles of retribution heads fastened and racked with teeth kid I you told you beseeched some almost Mutant gifts shale dismal answer slipping eyes as the built mercy crumples what passes concrete facings paradise prevailed lately pored over the aesthetics tumescent humiliation turned towards Black eyed speech dead consonants you have to say c…

To Night

Pylon the breeze carries traffic sounds across a tractor- scarred farmland... pylons above the bypass reiterate the vantage point of a buzzard...houses with grey blue slates ... nearly rhythmical murmur of the pines and far-heard traffic ... that’s how it always starts ... the engine of the reservoir, the soft light starts the red brick mantles of estates... the woman has her left arm raised to shoulder level and bent at the elbow ... that gesture... this, together with the smile that i…

This is another of those teetering one-on-top of-the-other Jenga poems about the spidery cracks about the flaws in our armour holes in our hands dry rot black spores x-ray machines white shadows sorrows etc cracks in the ceiling fissures in the floor snowfall in the prefecture of Ishikawa and here are we light-headed walking with a camera through the picturesque Lakes…

Day Day Day of obscure origin scrutiny falls the adjacent horizon the deserted curve also at the root meaning to burn transfuse shine as currents braid hair that rhythm walking supposed New sequences each layer laid one over under makes blur and difficult to see angels so the only reliable sustainable mode is to proceed by counting sheep in the dinted sky It wears away the eyes of the beholder because of echoing multitudes of different spac…

Sleep Sleep has mountains queer ladders descending catacombs of melancholic mumbling offering extracurricular activities sweet matriculations swings sharp suits ballrooms dresses Gowns in decrepit deco end of the pier pavilions abandoned skate parks ski slopes strewn with tiny silver aqualungs for deep blue vapour moonlight tie your hair and put your pale Shoes on drift together in disturbed ash tree buds susceptible to mirrors sudden u…

Angel threadbare cloth straw wings fringed puzzled grey imp indistinct as water stained gesture perhaps raised elbows feet or heave to turn chiffon spread grave dweller grist of creasing Dust lit stone yards of soft acid flowers rain tattered shimmer may you in what in what mud lips mouth shape as if to speak or fill with sleep the run black gutters street through the falls Debris twisted pipes pulled extruded wings wired deep houses fall through ear…

Delve Delve granite phone call suppose interim corners until unopened cluster paint as passage inert silk covers one breast look baroque perforations begin to snow lights were left on to encourage others To adopt pears and wait until they ripen fail and crease pieces held only by the surrounding and expanding acreage of hedge skirts we bit into by mistake but suffered no evil consequences One from the other gouged in some sandpaper pricked en…

Crawl from shell lids half shut neck born again glass sweating speechlessness of a kind face contorted by rictus as if already embalmed in the corridors of the asylum these spirits smoke Mutter tremor habits circumscribed pillowed bricks sweat out largactil stelazine orphenadrine white blue yellow sucked into places much the same indifference forgetting crawled upright Glazed to the opening where it fell into a corner of your fingers the nicotine br…

Frail dust grains first loose then held shivering around any small advance laps into that shore some melt some flame tricked into the hollowed bow touched the next light caught And then left answers too numerous and full to grasp drop way back did not fail not brush the sleeved ochre forehead or mouth platform encouraged parts of silence to fit in vast Slow choreography becoming restrained series of signature elisions to use when shaking to regulate…

Enough Enough would offer a side of well lit lemon rind said sharply as if the underlying grid dissolved for more than an inch or two it was there we lay to fold when not was the better perhaps hindseeing Was irritating the others who trailed the meat across their lips for hours did not matter wore on until malpractice came to define our present shamed hair emotions so many were saying don’t go Back but we had not had the distance we requi…

title Corals Or letters of deflection the glass jar wall thinning out near the skirting board apology offered but how sincerely I don’t even for a moment think are but the way trees begin to grow limits Out and in towards a point of recent and future departure difficulties it’s hard to finesse there is a state perhaps theory can be worked in to a different conclusion than the passage Continuing to flow through the corals of morn…

Prediction Prediction Treacle event audible anchor reversed split manoeuvred night sink and grip back to back close as peeled orange is living for the zest it was advertised to be unconscious but a better way Than when we looked for the start of a new tin of syrup is always a needed leverage substance until the point of the lid was placed as the essential mucus of the snail we had been Yesterday in the garden the stones there were…