James Knight: ‘The Shadow of the New Dog’, ‘Dissolve To’, ‘A Data List’, and ‘A Cracking, Splitting Sound’

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The Shadow of the New Dog The image is dominated by a pink biomorph vaguely suggestive of a dog, mirrored in dark red underneath. Collaged fragments of illegible and semi-legible text are dotted around. The most prominent textual elements read: Enter divers spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, hunting them about Here we must attempt a distinction between the two species, despite the ache of morning and the false light scratching the walls we must essay the variations in pulse, the irregularities in the metrics that make a direction of gaze Anubis guards the door, rod-stiff. What do you do next? Then there is the command jabbed into my face, displaced by Anubis or the acéphale with its stony expression + petrific abs why the hang-dog mouth? Touch me behind the ear, I’ll bite your hand off THE KENNEL ROARS Lapping at laps, rudder-tailed, eyes dead (/excited) He’s got his lippy out Wondering at the cacophony, still going over bits of the same footage, Cross-fade to the interior of the playful laboratory.
Dissolve To The image is dominated by the ambiguous figure of what could be the body and arms of a headless person, arms extended upwards. Collaged fragments of illegible and semi-legible text are dotted around. The most prominent textual elements read: this pink intrusion or flailing sense at the skin of the poem stay back: ick (Mein Gott, Gottfried Benn!) This island’s mine but this body is alien the poem deliquesces, mushes pale until the tautening of the skin: gas-bloat bad seed pod
A Data List The image is dominated by the ambiguous figure of what could be the body and arms of a headless person, arms extended outwards, like wings in flight. Collaged fragments of illegible and semi-legible text are dotted around. The most prominent textual elements read: to circumscribe form with a descriptive language to graft signs to a ravenous mass of cells in dream: pictures of bodies, make-up, sturdy, but prefabricated on waking: nerves ripping open wildly
A Cracking, Splitting Sound The image is dominated by an ambiguous figure that seems to combine a spiny fish with forms suggestive of mammal embryos. The collaged text reads as follows: the unborn shape is somewhat translucent like cold fire the glass breath system indicates white and black blotches a rotting chessboard The designer’s puffy white hand transforming blood into bone

James Knight

James Knight is a poet, artist and performer based in the UK. Recent books include The Murderer Threatened (Paper View Books), Frozen Meat (Sweat Drenched Press) and Cosmic Horror (Hem Press).
Twitter: @badbadpoet.
Website: thebirdking.com.
Instagram: @jkbirdking.

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