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A Beginning
A Beginning I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael: It is Yahuweh Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh, who brings...

Richard Mather


Little Owl
A minute before midnight, the owl of Minerva watches today grow fat behind time’s horizon. At twelve he blinks. One eye for the night of...

Richard Mather


When He Planted in the Earth
When He planted in the earth a tree of life, a tree of death (the latter with a curse of woe) did God say that this was good? And when He...

Richard Mather


Yehudah, I Make You Mine
Yehudah, I Make You Mine From out of the banks of the muddy Jordan River, I make you Mine. Into shape I press the grit, into shape I...

Richard Mather


Light Comes up behind Light
Time pursues time and light comes up behind light. One sun follows another – each circle of bright ringed by a dark corona. But when...

Richard Mather


Wyrd
In the beginning was the Wyrd . A story of weirding words and the poet fluttered his pen over the ink. What comes to pass has passed and...

Richard Mather


Circling
Circling We move in circles around each other, encircled and encompassing, each turn driven in part by our own will to move and be...

Richard Mather


From Creator to Creature
After the birds and mammals lost their speech (the serpent's tongue having already turned to ash) and Heaven swayed and fell to within...

Richard Mather


Sailing to Bermuda (with Andrew Marvell)
Sailing to Bermuda (with Andrew Marvell) Selected images stand as themselves: not in a living but in an enamelled world -- Raymond...

Richard Mather


Zero and the Anti-Dollar
Zero sat still with the anti-dollar in his scarred palms. The war had begun and the fear was flying through the air like blood. Zero felt...

Richard Mather


Zero Agonistes
“Zero” -- he of the failed harvest and wormish incarnation --, Has declared war on heaven. It is his special election. But there he...

Richard Mather


Zechariah
The brickwork is broken, Gardens are in disarray, The iron gates swing free from their hinges, Rain sings in the gutters &...

Richard Mather


Words
What are these things before me That come into shape? Do not ask And I will not have to answer. Weird creatures that run amok Inside...

Richard Mather


Under the World
Under the World A frog descended eighty-six radical steps to the devil’s loch. There the heron brooded at the water’s edge and the...

Richard Mather


Tree, 1943
My roots are split & my bone-bare branches brittle. I degenerate in a cruciformed landscape. There are many like me. Perhaps it’s a sign...

Richard Mather


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

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...

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
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