twofer’s island

(‘princess of the cookie cutters!’ – Mailer)

is goddess of
+++++gaps, what kindness, greenness might taste
+++++like a million years hence. waste.
‘giants all covered with
iron’, prophecy foretold, enchant-
+++++ment-reinstating protocol
overridden, silence aglow with stars.
believe it!
+++++twilight ferry crossed
the Styx, liberty
gave great-grandmother heebie-jeebies. to write

that Manhatta
+++++is no Onogoro is no
+++++overstatement. The indigo’d
deep-dawn-light plays black and
white in reel time. our protagonist gen-
+++++erated duplicate daughters,
resisting image distortion. Pluto,
Izanami -
+++++‘hindered characters’ -
connect in the pre-
sent psyche like strands of silver filigree,

so it’s possi-
+++++ble nowadays for the female
+++++to sing salaams before the male.
yet these ‘twisted torcs and
gold new-moon-shaped’ thoughts aren’t displayed to
+++++best effect; I speak long after
the fact. Adept at deconstruction, I’m
analyst,
+++++reviewer. I shall
sit here, mass produ-
cing confections for frenemies, catalyst

for vitriol,
+++++sender of shikome for souls
+++++of inconstant rigmarole-
spewing amours. I sit
on the gilded throne of a skyscraper
+++++penthouse with marvellous granite
sunset views. Whither civilization,
or its bent
+++++antithesis? I know
I’m hollow, fill me -
I’m ‘Asiatic’, ‘Feminist’, discontent.