Two Poems by nick-e melville
punch up
teeth
teeth
first words on the left of love and garbage by Ivan Klíma
1.
By City
Hospital
dustbins
before no drops penetrated
and
I climbed throats
‘They’d
camp
alive
on soul
‘Nonsense
listener
‘Don’t
she noticed
time had windows
didn’t
age
2.
The midday rivers
Now sick together
I internally
picture a people’s torture
luckily silent
his wife
turrets
‘What
My fatal order
her
Nach
one
others
spotlessly rebel
from You
Now miles away
3.
Heroes arrive
again
just a little
trying or
of Lída the clarinettist
They also had feeling
She does more
Yet
that hood
4.
I’d write
‘I’ve put on
A good humiliating
at least
I
with
The shit walls
not I
‘That’s
the real prison
5.
Then then annoyed
she assisted
tell only
The
infinite
nick-e melville is a found, concrete and musical poet; he is currently working with Rodney Relax as the ShellSuit Massacre producing socially aware found texts put to guitar techno: www.myspace.com/theshellsuitmassacremusic. nick-e has produced and performed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1997 and 2000; and he also runs X-Launderette, occasional events that showcase experimental writing, art and music. He has had work published in the following places: Issue of Poetry Scotland 39, dedicated solely to his work (June 05). Two features on his work at experimental poetry website www.logolalia.com:13 poems on the Minimalist Concrete Poetry page and an alphabet sequence alphabits, Office Gnomics (Acton Press 2006), www.blazevox.org/061-nm.pdf, Five Leaves Left (Neruda Press), Chapman 106, Coldcoffeex 8, 13, Cutting Teeth, 12 and 17, dirt #3, The Eildon Tree, eratio, Groundswell, Haiku Quarterly27/28, The Herald, horoscope (artists’ book by Colin Clark), The Human Machine (Glasgow University Anthology), The Knuckle End (Freight), Lallans 58, New Writing Scotland 19, Nomad , Nerve 3, Northwords 28, Otoliths, Poetry Scotland, 5, 13 and 19, Product 4, The Red Wheelbarrow, Saint Elizabeth Street, sleeping fish 0.875, Spoke (Audio CD on Bletherink), Underword 4, xStream.