Issue 13: Allen Fisher
from No Longer Alone
third set
in the storm flux
crowds proliferate or migrate
torn nerve
mosaics across the retina
extrusions control those of us on the surface
homeostatic division without growth
crowds extrude crowds in confined substratum
and consequent loss of survival
our visual access to the slush park proteins
starburst amacrine and horizontal cells
human variation in mimetic fidelity
morphometric to dreams of bird forms
living rather than dead cells eliminated
in the road run
homeostasis and removal of damage
locked to epithelial pathologies
aberrant tensions block our extrusion
form cell masses
reduced predation pressure on less profitable prey
limit the selection for globs of perfection
set for the promotion of ideal tumours
a retention of defects
below the temperature of quantum degenerents
bosonic particles sudden form coherence
matter waves production of phenomena
superconductivity, superfluidity and condensation
in momentum energy a pattern of unforgiving spontaneity
in the storm flux
fourth set
vapoured crack formation
drives our planetary failure
parallel fracture paths
that pattern our sex ranch
our control initiation channels propagation
crack patterns our substrates
where we burn in quantum roar
insulated from decoupled dynamics
a protected coherence
at a crowded gate
random biases
trend off the same direction
pervasive over-selection
reports false positive results
systematic error that prevails
in the predation of our responses
this new corroded trust
that creep cracks your commitments
a decoupled disruption
to interface wet dynamics
conflict with gate skin design
to harness resonance and breath
crack morphologies to ordered bifurcations
straightened induced directions
tools and techniques you have
for thin brittle depositions
but we have been drawn from microfabrics
in vapoured crack formation
Allen Fisher, is a poet, painter and art historian, website: <www.allenfisher.co.uk>
He is the author of 150 publications of poetry, graphic work and commentary; his Fluxus performance and conceptual work of the 1970s developed into new visual work, now in many international collections including the Tate and the Living Museum Iceland. Most recent books were SPUTTOR, Veer Books 2014, Proposals, Spanner Editions 2012 and LEANS, Salt Publications 2007. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University.
