Elysian Folds

dada cover art

 

‘Do-dah-do-dah-dada-dray:

Roll up, roll up!’

Lamp blacked,

eyeless equine figurine

On top of

odd Algarve shell cluster,

Rococo Chanel

Majolica,

Mickey Finns

Depictions:

 

…puce nouveau water, juice of absinthe,

oil slick oil, ugly carved frame, smoothly rugged

turned, crude carved canopy,  gold leaf burnished, 

house well-furnished, arsenic green crafted…

 

We

cut it up for toothpicks

and firewood.

Sent it up in smoke.

From the diaspora fug something comes.

A startled hobby horse made of old, iron bikes

painted frilly and

Twinkling