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"Origami" & "He Leads Us Into The Depths" by Adrian Harte



Origami


I only find you in the dark. Groping for a door handle when all is black glass.

Just clocks picking locks.

Everyone hates us

our guts, our body licking

my hands

on your waist

how we taste.

You're hopping and skipping,

glimmering gloom

molly popping

wan face shimmering.

Your scarlet sofa lips part to smile for me, belying your not-there stare.

One day, we will writhe together

at the dawn of day. We'll do the easy part now

furiously folding each other.




He Leads Us Into The Depths

I've just seen Nick Cave. He is the vampire king his feral symphonies drowned by the rattles of pearls from balconies. There are no spirits or sparks in Montreux town. Every thought and deed billed on green paper noted in black books. I thought Switzerland was cold he says, leading us from the steam chamber past the food and bible stalls into the bubbling Lac Léman. The thin dark spook screams and the thin dark spook shouts. Slicked back hair falls lose as he sneers and spits.


He parts the lake across to Evian's orange lights. The waves are walls. Bankers and traders and watchers drown until they're dead. Moneychangers prospectors too. Little fish eat through their heads. His deep blue suit wicking every drop, he walks and wades through the deep. Up the thousand steps. Up to the long black train, no more pain and suffering. In the train of hope and intent where cash and souls are never spent.





Adrian Harte is Irish but has lived in Switzerland for twenty years. He has been published in the Peregrine Journal, Vita Poetica, Beaver, Embryo Concepts Zine, Awakenings, Roi Fainéant Press, A New Ulster, and Abridged. He has also written Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More (Jawbone 2018).

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