By Tamsin Smith cold obstinate vapor take off that coat of armistice you know of no more news from nowhere no one would kneel by such brooding pools of blank self-countenance clutching the belly of a ram to sheer off how many have been consumed spelling sins of sentiment in ragged letters — loyal oyster vesicant […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith How might I Without whip Or cane chair high Coax you to calm? . Obstinate beast I long to reach Some soft point Of entry where We play untrained Without applause Brawl or guard The mind of me Swallowed Headless into yours So we can’t think to tary to taste the lees […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith as in all things pulling against . or leaning to desire is severed . like a limb or a head the pit of the statue . remounted, withdrawn regardless anew . metamorphism being rock’s birth-born luster . interlock of impure pressure polished to vein . and waxy scar sobs sculpted without face […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith what was the windmill to make of your jousting it’s as comic a scene as this sunset giant turned towards your charge powered by pierced by illusory air’s embrace assailed in the very act of revolution arms reeling and all stolen kisses out-blown like emptied wishes
by Tamsin Smith & that was that was that the first and only rule don’t leave before looking to the sea shore stretched weary call your soul-flared lighthouse home to the island of springs & ancient astronomy making very good use of water planting tears to tear tears away away with you then all your […]Read Post ›
By Tamsin Smith Smoke-choked corridors Ash in trays spilling Centuries of blackened books Smote heir splendid stories Their splendid stories Survived by stubborn spines Numb to the specter of cracking It’s all boneyard now But for one soul Plunking keys No one registers anymore Not rooms not chords Schubert, Basie, Monk Struck dumb Be voiceless […]Read Post ›
by Tamsin Smith roseate girl-blush too muchness of speech en-bedded locked and lacquer-dried with hyphen-hook decoupage wry-wrought rhetorical camouflage designed to delay prolong cave-comb elastic precision up from word-web to then spidersspiral out circle by circle sharp-tooth slant-told hush- holding slow- hanging crystal thought-seed in-set drifting dandelion wish-vessel unclasped by cloud convey full sail too much
Originally posted on MGR / Art & Politics:
first published in Juxtapoz, October 25, 2018 Hilary Pecis, “Favorite Vase”, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in., 2018. Hilary Pecis’ Familiar Views in San Francisco Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco September 29 – October 26, 2018 Paint what you know seems an anachronistic chestnut in an age of immediate interconnectedness,…
NOVIO ELECTRICO: TODO LA NOCHE BY TAMSIN SMITH What to say about Novio Electrico’s eponymous debut album? Considering that I’ve been carrying their clever harmonies around in my head and rolling their lyrics around on my tongue all week, my first thought is: bravo. From there, I’d add: delicious, flirtatious, unique, groovy, distinctly-pleasing, and totally […]Read Post ›
