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    The Carney of Mortlake
    The Carney of Mortlake
    The Carney of Mortlake
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    The Carney of Mortlake

    By Samuel Holcombe

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    The Carney of Mortlake is 207 stanza poem by S. Holcombe, a clinical and forensic psychologist. Rather than incorporating his impressions into short story or novel form, here Dr. Holcombe injects his ideas into mathematically structured dystopian snapshots. Inspired by Hanne Darboven’s compulsively structured exhibits and tableaux, this cycle of poems includes : Hermetic portraits filtered through narcotic haze. A catalogue of remote viewings. Impressions of a lost boy on the highway. Glimpses of both the personal and cosmic unconscious and an archives of hauntings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamuel Holcombe
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9780463907412
    The Carney of Mortlake
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      The Carney of Mortlake - Samuel Holcombe

      The Carney of Mortlake

      Dr. S. Holcombe

      To Hanne Darboven

      Carney of Mortlake

      Invocation

      Too much too fast Fibonacci progression Blood on amethyst

      Poisoned dragon rise Tigers of Wrath Contemptuous delight

      Crow Cussin Three times three Jade agate silver

      Automatic writing Horses of instruction Smokeseller

      Strangle hold Shard emerald vistas Gold steel mechanics

      Puncher’s Chance Silk Peacocks Hungry ghost neutrality

      King of Cups Snake oil Rivers of Mercury

      Dense painful pearl Wisdom of Caliban underground fountain

      Black trench runic verdigris calculus edge

      Section A

      1.

      In the selection of stones

      We must take pains

      Resonances may emerge

      Djinn of great and subtle force

      All gems igneous

      Born of fire and earth

      2.

      Tap the stone with your nail

      Vibration runs through you

      Bleakness of thin light morning

      Lowlands winter

      When days are compressed

      Filled with moist pressures

      3.

      Tension of live wires and smoke

      Winding under Viennese sidewalks

      Warehouse wraiths of defense

      Lye and quartz in concrete

      Shining counsel in

      Piano Mobile

      4.

      Neutral states of Europe

      Cryptic welcome vaults

      Open with potential energy

      Precious stones

      Dusted documents of lost power

      Notation of enemies passing

      5.

      Domestic Portraits of night watch

      Dutch not Degas

      Ouroboros watchman soft focus

      Bathing beeswax light

      Leather grimoire tarnished

      Display of foxed Venetian mirror

      6.

      Miasma of mercury forms

      Silver confined

      Funereal earth cauldron itself

      Buried and leaching into the soil

      Electrons burrow

      7.

      Patina of 1950s office furniture

      Sheet steel stamped

      Five hundred pound

      Fire safe with white painted

      incremental dials

      Geist in combination

      8.

      Pneumatic tube delivery systems

      Banks and hospital confined

      Echoes of angry veterans

      Taste of opioid like smoke

      Faraway chimes

      Wind comes out

      9.

      Forest madrigal

      Tactile extension of soul

      Well-fitted elk leather trousers

      Burgundy and moss fox fur

      Glow of gold and copper

      Melt in amethyst light

      10.

      Junkie detritus litters third floor squat

      Needles soiled with viral obscurely

      Burned clothes blankets carbonized spoons

      Generic cigarettes smoked

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