Corpus Vile - by
Some museums of antiquities store row on row of
/ unnamed skulls. There is a day of reckoning now
/ a plea to…
Some museums of antiquities store row on row of
/ unnamed skulls. There is a day of reckoning now
/ a plea to…
‘If it is our mission
/ to alleviate suffering
/ as well as to preserve life
/ there should be no conscientious restraint
/
/ and if God has…
After a visit to the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and especially for Kazimierz Kuczynski,
/ F.R.C.S. Edinburgh, and his…
Blackened
/ through lack of care
/ like an old grate
/ raked from the fire,
/ its two wings collar
/ the trapped air
/ and fuse at their lower tips
/ as…
In which river did the fish swim
/ that mistook for a fly a hook on a line
/ so drew its last, that…
The Misses Nelly to the Burgess surgeon!
/ This very night, a performance
/ Of dissection – flexing leg, belly, supple loin and eye…
No-one else sees me
/ drowning in the white wave
/ sprinkled with a terrible salt
/
/ invasive lobular carcinoma
/ is difficult to identify
/
/ but you take one…
The strokes of a sabre
/ on his wan head –
/ those blows repeated
/ in the heat
/ of battle
/ where sabres whirl
/ like flames.
/
/ An attack
/ by a tiger
/ or…
Oh for Christ’s sake gie the signor his siller.
/ Alchemist my erse, but he’s hermless, is he no?
/ He’ll never blaw us…
Eyeing an African carved leaning tower
/ Of people holding one another up
/ For dear life, childishly I bless that stranger
/
/ Who in a…
The first one came out the week of her birthday.
/ This second tooth’s harder: she pushes
/ and pushes at it with her…
At the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
/
/ My only talent lay in these.
/ My father rubbed his hands together,
/ stared as though…