Cede

by Michael Cross

Poetry chapbook.

Genres: Poetry

Letterpress Edition

First published January 1, 2006

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[M.W.P.M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

We cannot say concerning a wold which eats another wold that it violates the law decreeing that ordinarily wolves do not eat one another. It does not violate this law; it has simply found itself in circumstances where the law no longer applies
- Georges Bataille


Because the gush of colour is held back, it mobilizes more violence, potentialities the double energy: first the full encircling ring, the black line, incisive, definitive, then the flood of board chromatic scales in a wash of colour.
- Jacques Derrida


Every animal is in the world like water in water...
- Georges Bataille

have oaths evinced the metron still and still each sovereign rest despite the sauces and its white

they race toward the total of the social white takes honey as to face the abdomen

in excess a tangerine encampment, such that hackies neither fold themselves free

the lapping ancillary mass as the ankles of the ring's arrangement by which behaviour makes itself a lenity.


wares laid silhouette en-masse, the lime trees

the safer green impugn to cast the Hegemon both teeth and brook

the Cardinal and its epigone on foot to face, turn and face the Hegemon

face the fissure of the safer on one, Earth, its nexus of tags by which World,

surface of embattlement, the other (crimson) lyric-less Despiser were one to say


the gnosis once lye from fallow bits to tire, staged by the dosa of the police

folk ways want me tarred aside the rood a stealer short partitioned and surrection

animal has thrice the cusp, mauled me by its lawlessness in so far as demos,

the supplement stage a single figure by right alembic tongue

mouth's variety of black depth to condition the surface of the ring for the figure of the wold and fawn

how the king'd two bodies still a centre of consensus, the grackle paws the concrete as it flees




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