Michael Mc Aloran was Belfast born, (1976). He is the author of a number of collections of poetry, prose poetry, poetic aphorisms and prose, including 'Attributes', (Desperanto, NY, 2011), 'The Non Herein' & ‘Of Dead Silences’ (Lapwing Publications, 2011/ 2013), 'Of the Nothing Of’, 'The Zero Eye', 'The Bled Sun', 'In Damage Seasons', (Oneiros Books (U.K)--2013/ 14); 'Code #4 Texts', a collaboration with Aad de Gids, was also published in 2014 by Oneiros. Two further collections, 'Un-Sight/ Un-Sound (delirium X.)’ & 'The Banality of Else' were both published by gnOme books (2014). 'EchoNone' was also released 2015 by Oneiros Books. Black Editions Press also released 'Untitled #2' & '[unspoken]' in 2016, and 'longshadowfall' was published by Editions du Cygne (FR) in 2017. 'Catascope', was also published by Editions du Cygne early in 2018, and two further projects, 'the black vault' & 'all null having', are now published by VoidFront Press...
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...hangs a killer of some light in here where there an
absence of merely a corpse of to recall as if to premise from dissolve a torn
tongue gladiola of nullity drag from kick of scream next to nothing having seal
of wound of blood left in trail to follow to where all seasons damage is a
breathe of breath sickly closure where stitch of desire reeks of pageant long
forgotten black ice of nothing ever if to have unspoken non-speech echo of
nothing ever collapse into thy embers trace of meat of vocal erasure...
...as if one could follow where treasury & bite it down
upon through some tangent of claim restless death never solace weight configure
of lapse as if to have or have not follow of to gift dark willow opulence till
close of door where what a nothing in have of spoke cold colours restless
design a turn of screw in membrane stretch of pelt of rind spit of some nowhere
left all as if to close of wound reflex entrails silence nowhere on yet process
of in stationary peel of shadow peel(ed) to reveal dome of sky of what have...
...distance what lapse what length churn of cold electric
frenzy a taste of ash in some symphonium chemical absolve cut to bone what
weight solace echo flight from traipse not on bled what is speaking can or
cannot as cracks appear in footprints fade from view directionless haven of
collision in reek what stolen from where exigent what on forgotten unto whereof
a shimmer of cloud strip of lightning elect of a skeleton’s illuminate beneath
tears that dissipate in dry heat in wind blackened by dissolve...
...as it once rubs into of shit skinned of disposure flung
of dead child’s teeth in gravel over which dew is cast a caress where silence
breatheth nothing of tomorrow where of what walls to breath in acid redempt of
no a collapse of entity skin(ned) of purpose gild of laid out in synchronicity
a/nowhere of as words peel away from origins & lack is of in final champion
vicious to reduct less than dust less than ever of where it is to recoil &
merely echo to dwell within in an abound eye a gouge of it forgotten of...
...a smear a solitude snap of spinal break upon silence
close of yet another door to open once again to deflower the sun’s black
silence colours of which in acrid screams where in lime of pit rocks back &
forth a nothing of agues of tangents of words to suicide upon where sound
barbaric mix(ed) a cacophony of final waste to salve bit echo-dim light fashion
breakage of black meat of none restive to sense claim none in an abort of
traces skull lest of no no nothing of in a veranda of fecal a bleed a forage
for/ no...
...in a self-slaughter of where words lay fluent corpses
upon some char of hillside breath & vertigo of foreign collision nocturne
nothing of where wastage night is some cast of disregard till lapse what lapse
engrain of silence in whereof subtle as if to chase from beyond what matter
cold dice a flourish no a trace of stone wind reclamation where dead lock one
or another is of what with in nowhere climes a breakage point never once
follows it onward into a spit of bitter pips echoes to rot in tasteless benign
of other than...
...shards of froze flesh bite ocular as of foreign where
trace bedamn(ed) skins to tack upon fence posts given of where burn of ice of
night of nothing break upon dead zones of proximity silence of walls streak of
blood & laughter trace of if belong where dense approximate cold ash of
wind’s disclosure heave of in blood thicket char of fields reduction of black
grasses where spill it all out is of where silence lay it dirt down ground barren
closure dense accord nothing of of value where to stalk what of in reek...
...in nowhere of a collision of vocal with where null
abounds beneath sound crack apart where zero is of echoes merely break of
beneath where shadow pelt is to rock upon shore upon signature of where wave
upon naught claims instant of bereft where process is & yet nothing of
where about colour clad of ivory neither of obsidian blood in reckless disgust
tear of what heath striation of steel blade bite into where flesh is nocturne &
famine is where exile damage of distaste flung to final dogs of rot of
speech...
...danse of electrical light & a breakage of nothing
never once traced where of what spun collective as if to gouge where eye was
once merely feel of impotent dead spasm of elect(ed) to an exhale of
purposeless nothing of whereof shatter of lapse escapade of dim meat flay of
bone expose it where vapours arise of where motion unto passage through dead
speech clamour of inherit yet close of final eye speech reclamation of no in
claim of some on where nothing ever of from commence strata striate of no not
on no/nothing...