Blaris Moor by Medbh McGuckian

Author:Medbh McGuckian [McGuckian, Medbh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Reading Before Stalin

Friend means action—could you? Hold out?

In the northern capital we were not expected to know

what millennium it was outside Pegasus Stall

in that inconceivable London.

My lips cling together at the top of my voice

like fingers in mittens. As appetizers, cold slices

of marinated mushrooms, then mushroom soup,

and finally the main course, boiled mushrooms

with mushroom fillings.

My party books are dished out as dessert in little

cardboard squares, lilac ice-cream, cloud milk,

wine on the palm, cloud bread and rye-bread book.

The bronze of a sermon through the laziness

of the angels is melted down to a flywheel

with hammers, screws and bolts on a red

marble coffin. I can’t get my hand

into my sleeve, what with the wooden spoon

in my buttonhole, the bluebird on my cheek,

the words across the sky displaying the day’s motto,

a lyrical digression giving orders to the Army

of the Arts from the Commissar of Enlightenment.

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