(BandAid Medical 422.02)
pooh bear with a code on his back that would indicate
his birthday – or the use-by date of his last pot of honey
with that old bear sitting on one line holding glaciers together
while full metal jacket Jimi wails ’bout his Voodoo birth
heard as a bee-buzz in Chris Robin’s ipod earbud
blindly bumping into dark matter before escaping (through a nostril)
The glaciers show the rippling sky, and slide
beneath cool white languid language
in a room without borders where madness
has moaned with a diamond tongue of
derision that echoes and echoes.
Iced couplings fomenting flotsam flesh squeezed
You palmed my heartache at the corner drugstore
spread oaf on that thing! oaf ,and broad follic’lld bacon rind
Changeling spawn of piglet muttered darkly while watching lying Incubus prey
the succubus combed her hair, twirled her scotch on the rocks and she too
stared at the pooh bear
pooh-poohing him
while his slow eyes began to blaze
Where am I?
Greenland?
challenging wodehouse cutter finds or makes straight bat rend angle?
an undercut, incision, laceration;
transection of a carrot julienne,
mincing, wincing …
grimacing at the wodehouse cutter
Born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, M. F. McAuliffe taught technical writing, media analysis and basic TV production to engineering and applied science students, before working as a political pollster, technical editor, and librarian. She made her US publishing debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards. In the following 25 years she published fiction and verse varied venues - Adelaide Review, Overland, Australian Short Stories, siglo; in 2000 La Mama Courthouse Theatre (Carlton) used her long poem "Orpheus" as a libretto. In 2002 she co-founded the award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly, where she continues as contributing editor and co-publisher of GobQ Books.