Title:
Aglaphone brilliant
voice - oil on canvas
4x2ft
Emily
Says:
Sirens
tease us with their
sexuality –
confident, with
an edge of confrontation.
Their hair seductively
wraps around the
body, teasingly
covering them, but
at the same time
the hair turns into
tendrils suffocating.
With the cold colours
they appear corpse-like,
silently floating
in the water, yet
with a beautiful
grace.
Christopher Mulrooney
has written poems and
translations in West47,
Great Works, Saw and
The Ugly Tree, criticism
in Parameter, The Film
Journal and Elimae,
and a volume of poetry
called notebook and
sheaves.
the breakdown
comes
as a result of uncomeliness
in the language
signifying a tyranny of thought
suddenly present
as when you think to yourself
all at once aha the law governing
abeyance of this or that commodity
is a Wotno Act of Parliament
sponsored by the Earl of Sandwich
with cold cuts in his loaf
