Monday 30 August 2021

Two Poems by Andrew Cyril Macdonald

 



A space for Faust

 

Dark quantum is a service to needs.

It plays the part we will in broken hours afield

 

as we sit and watch shards fall down—

tears to replenish scene

purpose unfolds

 

on a stage jocund.

 

But the reverie does not command

nor its love surround in

perched reams

 

universe brings down.

 

There’s only gallows copses bleed of

under stars’ peals angst forgot

in a kingdom’s retort:

 

blacked holes that saw

no reason to bother

we lie with

 

this feel for our pleas.

 

 

The spectral collection

 

The heart in bloom

formed grievance against

 

trophied minds laid flat

from boredoms that tested

 

gestures soft to touch.

 

It was just this

Time introduced us

 

its silence clung to

undaunted in love.

 

Now the timber-rinse

rains on a cottage

ruined of

 

those feelings overcome.

 

Its auspice swirls remnants

loneliness shapes

 

from darkness stripped

of truths undone

 

when memory excites them

 

these ghosts of machines

their world’s production.




Andrew Cyril Macdonald considers the role of inter-subjectivity in the poetics of encounter. He celebrates the confrontations between self and other and the challenge that occurs in the fomenting of identity and independence in the contexts of relationship, space and locale. You can find his work in such places as A Long Story Short, Blaze VOX, Cavity Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Green Ink Poetry, Mineral Lit Mag, ODD Magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Thorn, Unique Poetry Journal and others. When not writing he is busy caring for seven rescued cats and teaching a next generation of poets.  



 

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