Conor Letham

Conor Letham May 2014

Thirst

We'll start the fire
in morning streets
with a flick-clip
on a matchbox
and light a trail
we made to steps
headed for a bed,
this time with no
extinguishers or
hanging fire exits.

#poem #poetry #fire #bed #street #morning #matches #thirst

Conor Letham May 2014

Paragraphing

We let the align-
ment of our con-
tact create a new-
lyfound structure:

you dress our bed-
ding over frame-
work, shapes mold-
ing words on paper

as though our truth-
fully plaiting finger-
tips shape a stereo-
type linear tendency.

Often the alignment of words create the most wonderful of coupling. Visual: http://24.media.tumblr.com/d70138f62fd18a99d66afda21a6c4856/tumblr_n6248xVzjm1t9ttljo1_400.jpg

#poem #poetry #words #bed #paper #contact #fingertips #linear #paragraphing #align #conor #letham

Conor Letham May 2014

Praying

keep an eye
on her church
mouth, place
a kiss upon
liquor thighs
then remember
she'll make you.

#kiss #prayer #liquor #church #praying #conor #letham

Conor Letham May 2014

The Moon Jar

Choson dynasty,*
you utter from a stub
on the stand's neck,
your eyes admiring
pimpled spaces or
the bulging curves
of the moon jar.

It is imperfect like
papier-mâché,
the hollow centre
surrounded by
a slumped figure:
two bodies thrown
as lovers, where,

noticing a crease
stretch the belly,
the mating halves
fuse to function
a wholeness like
the moon we make
when we hold hands.

The Moon Jar is seen as an imperfectly round, yet 'natural' ceramic Korean piece. It is seen as pure and unflatteringly beautiful in its simplicity through which it provides many complexities.

Sources:
1. http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/news_and_press/press_releases/2007/the_korean_moon_jar.aspx
2. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/w/white_porcelain_moon_jar.aspx
3. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/45432?=&imgNo;=3&tabName;=gallery-label

#love #moon #hands #perfect #lovers #body #whole #bodies #imperfection #mating #jar #conor #letham

Conor Letham May 2014

Synthetic

I ask if you want to
escape
when maybe we're only
synthetic
bound together by the
wire
slipped between our
skins
filching at each other
inside
these metamorphosis
cocoons,
waiting for one to come
outside
of our shelled carbons
nearing
the brilliance of the city
lights
as though slops of rain
dancing
off of tall windows was
like
the sky setting itself on
*fire.

Experimental with two ways of reading and a focus on the word 'synthetic'. Was originally spaced for the singular words however formatting on here won't tab spaces. So, close enough.

#love #poem #poetry #fire #relationship #escape #skin #metamorphosis #city #cocoon #lights #synthetic #wires #conor #letham

Conor Letham May 2014

Marlboro Woman

Could you hold me up-
right, left to sit and stare
though your sifting smoke
columns like a spinal wisp,
wasting away time in your

beautiful lungs. I like to in-
hale the cast-away smiles
you hang over me, into me,
my mind lost in taste to how
your chest is as mild as May.

"Philip Morris launched the Marlboro brand in 1924 as a woman's cigarette, based on the slogan "Mild As May". In the 1920s, advertising for the cigarette was primarily based around how ladylike the filter cigarette was, in an attempt to appeal to the mass market. To this end, the filter had a printed red band around it to hide lipstick stains, calling it "Beauty Tips to Keep the Paper from Your Lips"." - Wikipedia, Marlboro_cigarette

#beautiful #smile #smoke #cigarette #marlboro #left #smoking #right #sit #spinal #wisps #lung #hang #mild #conor #letham

Conor Letham May 2014

Festival Plans

one day we'll shake
our heads out like
flowers in spring,
like our hair was
on fire to light up
the fields, and we
would watch on
to those who sang
their songs for us
and only for us
as we are always
there, for them,
as though we're
weeds in thought.

#fire #song #head #plans #sing #festival #weeds