Nollaig Mac Sheoin

CONTENTS 1. AVAIN REFUGEE CAMPAIGN 2. DESPERATE DENTIST 3. WORK SOMETHING OUT 4. ALL IMMORTAL ANGELS 5. LOUDER 6. NO LONGER 7. BREAK THE SILENCE 8. All that you can carry in your side pockets 9. THIS WITNESS (8 minutes) 10. SIR KILL OF THE LIGHT 11. “BLACK MARKET MUSIC” MAIN SECTION 1. AVIAN REFUGEE CAMPAIGN call an amnesty for the avian refugees the fucker’s got us digging and we’re in up to our knees - everybody knows it but nobody tells it the feotus starts growin and then crackin the shell shit - we’re in up to our knees, and so we skin up our disease choker chains hide the fleas, smoke our brains out with the bees cousin’s buzzin underneath, pushin puzzles in the breeze he’s not mistaken your disease, skin is flaking in the trees, hustle muscle till you sneeze…. game one won that day, but that game - always wins name one, watch ya say, cause that name - always wins game two, did you say? would you dare - breach...

Do you want me To find a rock and crawl beneath it? Or do you want me To scrape the earth of dirt and eat it? Or do you want me To want you? There’s times you hold me Responsible for all your sadness, And then you hold me To ransom in a state of madness; When I just need you To hold me. When you want, and you need, When you wish, and you feel, Never coincide with anything that’s real. Never coincidental; anything but real. So you tell me To find someone to tell I love her, And you tell me The last is gone but I’ll recover; When I just wish that You’d told me. If it’s over All the things I’ve said and done to you, Or it’s over Everything I am and could be for you; Then it feels like It’s over.

            Whereby Wonder Suits                                                     Whereby wonder suits,                                                    Particles clearly manifest a union;                                       ...

           Struggle             I see you lying on the ground,             Your face in dirt and blood and tears;             Fighting me off you bite my hand,             I cannot get a grip;             You kick me back but still I try,             We’ve fought like this for years;             You can’t see much with dirt in your eyes,             I only wanted to help you up.

                                                                                        The Shadow and the Moonlight                                                                             ...

Sentence Alien foetus floats in scattered light, The newborn climbs the cage. Hatchlings hang from the heating pipes, Polaroids recount the days A plant bears its foliage in triumph, This season’s natural selection Of shared memories peddled, or pushed, A copper throne to elation.

Inspire Me Again/The Bird and the Hurricane Strange how storms can hold a sway On young creations’ wing; The treasures that one blows away, Another’s gusts will bring. Misfortune fears his feathered fiend To keep the wind at bay; For if this bird is caught and preened, A golden egg will lay.

Inverted Horizon Unperturbed gull, Never tire of your squawk: We know what they’ve done. Those hard hatted soldiers, Their anthills unfolding; Envying the perspective you squander. Behind cluttered skies, Your daylight fades sooner, And the nights pass star-less to dawn. You glimpse beyond, Where the quarry birds mourn Their neighbours’ dreams’ fulfilment. When will spring come To this dormant nest Where icicles hang from the edge of the Earth?