Blossoming Through the Fence
"Related Acquisitions"
By David McNicholas
Originally published in Rogarou: Journal of Arts & Literature.
The beaker and the vase, the pear of the body.
Mother was a money, they were a neighborhood.
Relates of lions, consists of lions.
Deconstructing the path, concentric circles, abandoned suburb.
Mother was money, together they were a neighborhood.
He was lucky, a raging maniac.
To deconstruct the path of concentric circles, in an abandoned suburb.
They can reign until the dragon splays close.
A raging lucky maniac,
competition was actually his favorite.
They can reign, only until the dragon splays close.
He slices open countless screens.
Competition actually, was his favored way
to exist in the world, the world outside.
He slices open the skins of countless sinking screens.
Remembers when 22,23,24, he was seething.
The world outside, exists.
It is stated: a floral creeper inscribed.
Remember seething we
may remain, until two winged lions open
the inscription on a floral creeper,
or a large clock.
Two winged lions remain open.
Countless concrete fragments.
A massive clock face looms,
intertwined in the mouth, time was a scream.
Countless concrete fragments surround
a pianist who refused to drive a car,
The scream of time intertwined in his mouth.
Odd listening, understood by buildings.
A pianist who didn't drive at all.
Paper architecture, cultured without culture.
Odd, hearing understood by buildings.
Skip-stop, point about the faces
cultured without culture, this paper architecture.
Mouth of the vessel, now barely made alliances.
Skip, stop, point, about the face,
intensely playful, of metal
alliances, made bare in the mouth of the vessel,
references to structure, mouth and double.
Metal, intense and playful,
sunk, rather than lose this kind of marginalization.
Relevance, structure to mouth, and double.
Foliage, the animals' thick metal bodies,
these vessels, band of beading foil, gilded mouth.
The pear of the body, beaker, and vase.
Glass in severe, silk sorrow neck,
consisting of lions, mainly relating of lions.
About the Artist
David John Baer McNicholas is from a working-class background. He has been on travel in New Mexico for three years. He is the author of the novel Lemons: In an Orchard, and operates the nascent imprint ghostofamerica ltd co (Anarchy, Abolition, Art). He is currently at home studying for his BFA in Creative Writing and AA in Native Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe while reading CNF for BendingGenres.com. His linked CV can be found at ghostofamerica.net. David loves doom jazz, tostones, and absurdist films.