Selected Poems of Thomas Albert Fox
Intercourse
Contents
Page
1
Acknowledgements and Introduction
1
2
Bride
2
3
The Sirens Sang
3
4
Superiority
4
5
Pop Festival
5
6
Penetrating
6
7
Profound Love
7
8
Lad
8
9
Diemaker
9
10
Yum
10
11
Strait Street Janey
10
12
Lest We Forget to Forgive
11
13
Akimbo
12
14
Ditty
14
15
The Parade
16
16
Songs
17
17
tapping
18
18
Touch
20
19
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
22
20
Pine
24
21
Speechers
26
22
Tongue
27
23
Cellini Cast With His Medusa
28
24
Appealing Love
29
25
Modern Guide
29
26
It is an Art, really
30
27
Onion Eyeing
30
28
Lorca’s Apple
31
29
Apart from Me
31
30
Chilled
32
31
to a Quill deFined as an HollowpostModern-Read steeped in ink
33
32
Livingspace
34
33
Po’em
34
34
Poam
35
35
A rhyme in time is not a crime
35
36
rocks
36
37
America
38
38
baan chom dong
39
39
busmachine
40
40
Hymn for me
41
41
Smiles Guesthouse
41
42
In defence of poetic machinery uncovered
42
43
Womb
43
44
Gift
43
45
Have you ever beaten your President?
44
46
Barbie Doll
46
47
Monica
49
48
Disturbance
52
49
Charles III
54
50
Predicates of I
55
51
Vociferous appendage
56
52
The Difference
57
53
Retired
58
54
Vincent
59
55
I’m a poet
63
56
busy exec
63
57
Song to love
64
58
Vacuous Sacs
66
59
Late
67
60
Aroundabout
68
61
Fall Out
70
62
Tiger Song
72
63
Failing Words
74
64
Saturnday night down town
76
65
While I’m Talking
76
66
Cryptic
77
67
You may
77
68
Commonplace Point
78
69
The New Millennium Poem BE2543
79
70
wounded elephant
80
71
Eve
82
72
Stranger Grace Song
83
73
bamboo bridge
84
74
no peeping
85
75
New Life
86
76
Sunset waltz
87
77
The Final Solution
88
78
Kwai
88
79
All Coloured Man
89
80
Worlds Apart
90
81
Mary Bell, child killer song
92
82
Food for thought
93
83
Paperboys
94
84
Achilles Song: Lament for the fallen
96
85
Intercoarse
98
86
A Veiled Threat: Dance of the Seven Stanzas
99
87
Off day
103
88
Core rite
104
89
March Hare
106
90
Unforseen Part
107
91
Freckles
109
92
Cast Iron
110
93
Bitzan, Ion 1924-1997 (Solomon)
112
94
The Front
113
95
Gotit
115
NOTES
"Intercourse" has 95 poems, each a smash and grab at the glitter of a reality whereof there may be found communion and tendency for bilateral, even multi-lateral subsistence, a tacit conspiracy of the two wings (self and other) that flight a person gaping, unexpurgated through the hall and apparent concert of life as if human and unalone, as if unmasked, although fixed in autobiographical narrative wherein persons seem conjoint with selve and illude each other with a shape and sense of their vacancy.
The "Intercourse" poems illude (illusion) phenomena that to all appearances fly in the face of facts as if the arrow of Zeno is not stuck in the heart of movement, pinioned. These poems depend on a measure of movement, and thus depend on the human being-illusion of timely space whereof language inveigles existence out of the very air and gives shapelessness a form of words, their patterns and pauses, virtually constructing artefacts of air, displacing emptiness as if it were a space between us filled like the bath of Archimedes to overflowing with a measure of purity worth its weight in gold.
Of adjectival blue
Are baffling wide
My thoughts of you
Play park bride["Intercourse: Bride", page 2, Voice ref: 1A002.]
Such marriage defies description, except that nearness places us together without connection, though by implication side by side we lie twisting and turning, speaking one about the other, twining, propinquent.
The title 'tapping' is, of course, deeply ambiguous; in some senses perhaps a quadruple pun. The intercourse is between Fox/screen into cyberspatiality whereatinonbythroughthathere he communicates with himself and by himself with his dead and alive family on his Mother's side, and and the flowers ***** cover her grave and all our anonymity, we the dead the quad trillion of us that inhabit the longitudinal space whereat all the dead and the living dead and the dead coming are secreted in a congregation that bewilders humanity by its extentsive gathering of curious genes that in the end and beginning are at one with the stars intimated by the Hubble telescope.
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