Harshness sought out through ravaged hands Tormented thoughts caused implosion The encroachment of the elements to harden the soul Shadows within weakened walls darken
Brittle thoughts tossed in pieces Lost forever fluttered among the air
Twisting and swirled are the appendages of time Thorny arms reach to their destiny
The density of the air has thinned Brightness emerges through the pain No rivers to cleanse the face Only parched lips say goodbye.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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dark and haunting as well