{"id":1043,"date":"2007-08-16T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:55:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:55:05","slug":"new-poetry-by-david-mclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-poetry-by-david-mclean\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry by David McLean"},"content":{"rendered":"

revenge of the hollow men<\/span>

here we lean our headpiece against sweet oblivion<\/span>
and worship this dreamless kingdom<\/span>
where our eyes are closed against night's<\/span>
loveless sky<\/span>
and morning's boringly dawning sun<\/span>
mourning the columns love erected<\/span>
against our traced days<\/span>
the meanings engraved on night's dainty lace<\/span>
and all our wasted embraces<\/span>

facing our warm and brave enclosure here<\/span>
my spacious saviour within reach<\/span>
with your fingertips that list<\/span>
love bright on my unbowed back<\/span>
your anguish's twisted rack<\/span>
and we save days in our coffin's<\/span>
coming coffer<\/span>
for man is but a lack<\/span>

and this is his dead land<\/span>
this is his dead land<\/span>
his dead land indeed<\/span>
and we are a mirror-play of reasons<\/span>
the trough in which we feed<\/span>
our need<\/span>

we wait our final twilight meeting<\/span>
the skeletons handshake<\/span>
and kind Cadaver's meetly greeting<\/span>

our rat-skin coat<\/span>
Ra's midnight boat<\/span>
and nothing within<\/span>
that final finishing<\/span>
where bodies embody the beetles' relish<\/span>
and nothing within<\/span>
but nothingness and missing sin<\/span>


\u2022 David McLean says “I was born in Wales though I have lived in Sweden since 1987. I have been published in numerous magazines and e-zines. In September 2007 I shall be “poet in residence” at www.poetsletter.com<\/a> and in August 2008 “centre stage poet” in Decanto. More information is online at www.myspace.com\/david_mclean<\/a> and www.hecale.com\/words.htm<\/a> It's pretty obvious who is the inspiration for all of these.”<\/span>
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revenge of the hollow menhere we lean our headpiece against sweet oblivionand worship this dreamless kingdomwhere our eyes are closed against night'sloveless skyand morning's boringly dawning sunmourning the columns love erectedagainst our traced daysthe meanings engraved on night's dainty laceand all our wasted embracesfacing our warm and brave enclosure heremy spacious saviour within reachwith your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}