Matt Duggan

 

 

 

 

            White Noise

 

Only when the winter begins with a black and white rainbow

does the night become our enemy;

 

Light hides in the short reams of morning

behind loose stones and the clearing of rainclouds.

Lungs of a world breathing in our chaos;

covered like red lunar on a planet in autumnal colour,

 

where silence was held in eye sockets without roots ,

our tongues were moving without any words

silenced by the fingers that caused us to talk

 

isolating every source of our reality

we stared blankly into this conversation of white noise.

 

Shiny Obsolete Silver Objects

 

We are distracted magpies made of skin and metal

slowly building our own prisons brick by brick.

Absorbed inside the world of a small black case,

that wields our knowledge and power.

 

We fly between truth and lie

A bird without a final destination

our calling for the silver that detracts us

as lighting glint in a city is more powerful

than the empathy inside our being;

 

We collect shiny obsolete silver objects

replacing them every other year

Our behaviour has always been engineered

our desensitised response to any blood soaked image

to buy even more useless shiny goods;

 

We are distracted magpies made of skin and metal,

slowly building our own prisons brick by brick.

 

 

BIO Matt Duggan
Poems have appeared in Apogee Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, Osiris, The Journal, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, The Dawntreader, Algebra of Owls, Matt won the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2015 and the Into the Void Poetry Prize in 2016.