The Visual OC

CALIBAN’S FEATURE OF THE WEEK

This week’s featured poem is “That Which Transpires Behind That Which Appears” by John Bradley. Bradley’s surrealism, and its wide range of forms and subject matter, is unique in contemporary writing.
(Calibanonline #22, p. 105)

http://calibanonline.com/CO22/html5forpc.html?page=104

THAT WHICH TRANSPIRES BEHIND THAT WHICH APPEARS

Sometimes your s*x. Sometimes with mine.
Meanwhile the cellar where you store the rain-splayed toes.
Meaning a fragment of the moon stacked on the back of an ant.
Keep the referee’s underwear in the brown bag near.
I can speak SMUDGE in twenty- five languages. At once.
Everything you own for a treacle of root-gone water.
Name those in the room wine or wind seller. You could.
Sometimes the uncupped wind clattering in to speak.
When you spit on my shoe. When I soothe your lip with burnt briar.
Raw dirt to wash the aforementioned bilingual hair.
Feed the cabbage with soiled blood lightly. Slightly.
Bind my feet with straw and snail incidence.
Meaning that flap of skin no paprika can calm.
Three kinds of loudness stuck to the ductile throat.

John Bradley’s work has also appeared in issues 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22, 25, 27, 29,
31, and 34.

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