Taxidermy
Here is a city
where buildings cramp,
wattle and daub splits at the seam.
Tram cables, phone lines cat’s-cradle tenements.
Here is a monument; a mosaic scene. Tiles
fall out like milk
teeth
fail to grow back.
Punch-drunk wasps around a pregnant cat
by a stagnant pool,
the smell of pencil shavings and urine.
Here, a moth-bitten framework; a man
picks at a plate
of small, lead-coloured fish.
* Angus Sinclair is a graduate of Norwich University College of the Arts.
He is a poet, photo-artist and professional wrestler.
His work in these mediums is concerned with minimal narrative structures.