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The Word



Landscape with sleeping girl



(After)life



The Large Hadron Collider (Ode to science)



The Death of Don Quixote



Quantum Uprising (formerly known as Glitches in the Matrix)



PoieSYS (beta)



POETIC IMAGE GENERATOR: RUN

INPUT VISUAL PARAMETERS
GENERATE POETIC IMAGE
NUMBER OF LINES: 2

​Thin crooked leafless branches are brushing the river’s surface (on the right)


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A reconstructed memory - temporal stretching of sound



My home country, several years ago (or more), pre-COVID era (feels like a lifetime or two ago, I don’t dare trust my memory anymore). A local 4-piece band is performing at a hipster-like venue at a small-scale alternative rock festival in the capital city. Their sound is a mixture of surf rock, rockabilly and the 1960s psychedelia, with contrasting distorted guitars. They play their own tracks only. The musicians are graced by bright white lights growing dimmer as you move further away from the stage, where they darken, dissolve and evaporate, mixed with clouds of smoke.


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Séamus (as it happened in a dream, 2012)



They intercepted me in a forest outside Corkey, Co. Antrim, one afternoon, with torches, one by one, although I was doing nothing other than minding my own business. She was the first to emerge, Fiona. A white dress, male-short black hair, a fist of redness on her cheeks, acute anger. She said she was looking for James and she asked me where he was, as it obviously was expected of me to know that. Then the others appeared as well. Delicate pasts, three sisters, two brothers. Michael was the eldest, a twenty-year-old. Freshly out of prison. Then Moyra, Daniel and Brigid, there it was again, the same incurable cobweb of darkness.


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The King is Dead



The King is dead
Long live the King!
We've cut off his head
Torn out his limbs!
Plucked out his eyes
That finally he may see
So when he should cry
​He'll cry inwardly.


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the word (2015)



this

this is the word

this is the word

the word

the word.

this is the word.

this.

this is the word.

this.

this is

this is

the word.

this is the word.

could've been better

could've been better

could have been better

but in the beginning there was

the word


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exit (2015)



my senses

died

in a toy-church

when I was young

and still unknowing

lovable

but didn't know

what love was


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Apocrypha (December 2011, translated from Serbian in 2022)



Steve Wilson smashing a telePod with telekinesis, somewhere between East London and January 2035
the mind is his hammer is his Lord mellotron his shroud on which he’s leaving a trace in the shape of himself and in case the ambience should evaporate from that air not so long ago into the future, he stole Barbieri

from a somewhat lower but older throne, possessing qualities close to Wilson’s by many criteria

only with a different scent.


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blessed be all the madmen of this world (2009, translated from Serbian in 2022)



because for them, behind every corner, there’s always a new umbrella rich with possibilities, eternally open, with the top pointing downwards, gathering the water that’s dripping from clouds, the conductors of the fragments of the cosmic consciousness. each trip to the supermarket, college, work, riding the public transport equals failing the exam in the secular capabilities, but a shadow falling on the pillow on a spring afternoon can easily be a gate to the kingdom of god


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I know (October 2010)



I know there is someone somewhere sitting at the semi-sap-green table listening to Coltrane thinking now now is it high enough thinking there must be someone somewhere sitting at the semi-sap-green table listening to Coltrane ‘cause all roads lead to Coltrane before before you fly right down. I know that


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Pugilistic (2010)



a wonderful trade

behind the shade

all braded up

in branches

no one to trust to incinerate combust

better than yourself self

better than yourself self


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mardi gras (2010)



four little white teeth sitting on my lap

three bony freudians filling up the gap

two dead men dining in my bedroom

I killed one - now there’s two


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(2011)



where do I go now, O Academics?
where do I go now, O Battle-droids?

where do I go now, O Door-knobs?

where do I go now, O Petrol-based eyes?

where do I go now, O Bodily fluids?

where do I go now, O Mother?


seven years, saving hunger for the hungry, sharpening knives for midwives, pretended I read through the pages wide spread but only I knew where the hands were and why, disgusted and disgustipated sleepless constipated by the dreadful truth about the salivally marked territories and soldiers with glass in the eyes and eyes in the glass and rotten mouth skin eloquent but no taste at all, unable to fill in to fill in the void.


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