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To Spinoza
To Spinoza nomads we traverse a flat shimmering world breeding images. signs & erratic/ erotic encounters; surfaces effacing...

Richard Mather


The Humanzee
The Humanzee In the heat of a celluloid American night, Doctor Franklin Ahab — host to a crowd of forty souls — walks in a stately manner through the upper rooms of his Massachusetts mansion. He descends the wide staircase, smiling and reeling off witty one-liners. An orchestra plays The Rite of Spring in the enormous dining hall. For a few minutes Ahab casually mingles among his guests, then calls for the conductor to settle down. Hester, his life partner in a transparent

Richard Mather


The Wreck
Pieces of boat float on the water. A cargo of hands and heads go unrecognised. Camera crews walk on eggshell lives, pick up threads of...

Richard Mather


The Voyeur
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT CONTENT The Voyeur He watched her take a piss, using the camera hidden in the pan of the toilet. She wiped herself from back to front, the ‘wrong way round,’ he thought. She did this twice. He masturbated and came in less than a minute, hundreds of miles away. She pulled up her knickers, straightened her skirt and left the bathroom. The voyeur, the Aufklärer, wiped himself clean and looked around, to make sure he hadn’t been seen. Everything is transpar

Richard Mather


Promise to Abraham
Abraham, it is time to leave your lonely tent. Find a vacant spot in the belly of your heart and learn to fear the Lord. Stop seeking the...

Richard Mather


The Family Way
Eve lay down and trembled. Her belly grew fat like the moon. Her womb conspired murder. Cain was gloomy at heart. Abel and his animals...

Richard Mather


The Eye Looks
The eye looks The ear waits The hand gropes The heart yearns The body thrashes about the turning wheel, which turns in TIME. ...

Richard Mather


The Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project
And again: the thud of executions echoes in the green ear of Maboula, Cameroon. The tremendous squeak of the assassin's blow and the axe...

Richard Mather


Time and Rust
Fog swirls, curls
around vans, cars,
slips ghostlike
through bare branches.

Richard Mather


Sunfall
Late October Afternoon: A Weak Watery Sun -- Not What it Was But Not Dead Yet.

Richard Mather


Still-life
Ask her what she thinks as she conceals her baby in fallen leaves and detritus. Still-born, still-life. All that waiting, all that love...

Richard Mather


Spinoza’s Hatchet
Spinoza's Hatchet For the sole perfection and the final end of a slave and of a tool is this, that they duly fulfill the task imposed on...

Richard Mather


Sea Song
My thoughts turn to the sea: there the convolutions of time deliquesce into wavelike ease, closer to the rhythms of myself. It is where...

Richard Mather


Endless, the Downward Laminar Flow of Rain
Endless, endless, the downward laminar flow of rain -- Atoms falling through the void

Richard Mather


Pictures of Eve
I Adam cultivated Eve by swelling her belly with something so potent that it could only have come from the stone of a forbidden fruit. II...

Richard Mather


Penelope
Penelope weaves a boat of sweet songs while beneath her bibulous boozers scratch beer, play dice. “Declare his bones and...

Richard Mather


Backyard Sketch
the air is raspberry sweet
it swarms with wings

Richard Mather


On the Seventh Day
On the seventh day God came down, dug earth deep and wide, buried Adam in the belly of the planet. From his grave came flowers and fruit...

Richard Mather


The Octopus and the Fisherman
"A fisherman fingers a long-handled blade, rolls a cigarette, chops herbs and garlic by a charcoal fire ..."

Richard Mather


Microcosm
בְּרֵאשִׁית was the command 10 PRINT "Hello Universe" 20 GOTO 10 Unbelievable, breathless, demonic even, how a singular point could yield...

Richard Mather
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