IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE003 / FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE YOU WILL ALSO FIND A VERY BEAUTIFUL & VERY PERSONAL FEATURE ON BRETT ANDERSON (8+ PAGES WITH AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, BRETT'S POETRY & PORTRAITS BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE)
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ALL OF YOU UNDISTURBED CITIES
HAVEN'T YOU EVER LONGED FOR THE ENEMY?
I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU BESIEGED BY HIM
FOR TEN ENDLESS & GROUND SHAKING YEARS.
UNTIL YOU WERE DESPERATE & MAD WITH SUFFERING;
FINALLY IN HUNGER YOU WOULD FEEL HIS WEIGHT.
HE LIES OUTSIDE THE WALLS LIKE A COUNTRYSIDE.
& HE KNOWS VERY WELL HOW TO ENDURE
LONGER THAN THE ONES THAT HE COMES TO VISIT.
CLIMB UP ON YOUR ROOFS & LOOK OUT:
HIS CAMP IS THERE, & HIS MORALE DOESN'T FALTER,
HIS NUMBERS DO NOT DECREASE; HE WILL NOT GROW WEAKER,
& HE SENDS NO ONE INTO THE CITY TO THREATEN
OR PROMISE, & NO ONE TO NEGOTIATE.
HE IS THE ONE WHO BREAKS DOWN ALL WALLS,
& WHEN HE WORKS, HE WORKS IN SILENCE.
DOUGLAS WHITE IS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED (YOUNG?) ARTISTS IN BRITAIN. WE HAVE COLLABORATED WITH HIM ON AN ARTICLE IF THUNDER WAS DESIRE IF DREAMS WERE LIGHTNING FOR SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE001 / SHEDDING SNATCHES OF SONG LIKE PETALS & IN SOME/THINGS MAGAZINE ISSUE002 WE CONTINUE THE COLLABORATION SHOWING HIS NEWEST WORKS FROM MALTA & ELEPHANT TOTEM SONG WORKS IN DOUGLAS' LONDON EAST END STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHED BY MONIKA BIELSKYTE
..WHEN IN A SULTRY NIGHT SHOT WITH LIGHTNINGS THE PLANE IS LANDING AT BEAUVAIS OR KALAMAZOO
& A STEWARDESS MOVES ABOUT QUIETLY SO NOT TO WAKE ANYONE WHILE THE CELLULAR WAX OF CITIES GLIMMERS BENEATH
I BELIEVED I WOULD UNDERSTAND BUT IT IS LATE & I KNOW NOTHING EXCEPT LAUGHTER & WEEPING
THE WET GRASSES OF FERTILE DELTAS CLEANSED ME FROM TIME & CHANGED ALL INTO A PRESENT WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END
NEW YORK CITY POEM FOR MONIKA / ROBERT MONTGOMERY