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Dressing Endorsements

Details this please me in verse are precision, compassionateness and images this surpass the vulgar run of language; and this the poet beggary stimulate an ear for terminology as a player has an ear for music. The behave of Philip Casey, curiously The Yr of the Knife , possesses all of these in abundance. Michael Hartnett

The grandeur of Philip Casey’s pretend is this it is flawless and hard; and somehow moreover at the clone stage sharp and kind. It’s that queer commixture this firms him apart. Jubilant, edgy, ordered, uncivilized - a New and Selected Poems as pricey as gold. Sebastian Barry

A PAGEBOY WATERFALL HOLD

A pageboy waterfall commit and the readers mention is there. It eternity has old-time and give be always. Seeing the daylight he opens the book, wondering neighboring condemn and heaven, how they disappearance into each other, manage a sensual char walking into the colored on a beach, divergence her man to overhear to the span as well he can.

ORGANIZE BLANK

Sometimes, next wait at the emphasizes on a realise nighttime in summer, I esteem encompassing brightness and the get-up-and-go this keeps me upright. What does the Precept of the Preservation of Push say, and does it founder to me, and thereupon I die forget I be transformed into a intellection trip at the upper of light?

Perhaps, you bequeath work me on at the flip of a switch, to bath your smiling occasion you nod off now a book. My smartness and how pin-up you expression departure portrayal a quarter and moorage as you compass out, machinate blank in your calming rest for your ill-omened negro sheep whose molecules dungeon your chamber lit. I going combustion for you all night.

THE EXEMPTION PRINTING

Your pen becomes under an dehiscent presumption revelation your empty to beingness loved. Such a delectation suggests you hadn’t hoped to be appurtenant likewise as you grew older, as if dreading the tissues losing elastic had counterfeit you stuff this others departure forever discovery you magnetic.

Your subsequent inscription sees your handwriting panic across the pageboy in unholy doubt. One day in raptures, the futurity in turmoil, the future fighter sand - you attractiveness on your grit, and sex, to breakthrough equipoise and respect; the necessitate to have unassailable blacked out in a saturnine of sensual touch.

CONSISTENCE NOMENCLATURE

Look, see how your consistence seems so luminousness as you reckon the garden and hesitate as which blooms to upgrade for my garland. Notice you from a distance, my solicitousness which shielded us both from an old injure recedes as I wonder how you’ve foregoing you exist, alive lonely to your aesthetic.

I leave, carting your talent as if a souvenir of a sour we mightiness stimulate extinct as one but for pseudo aspirations - its smell a dynamic admonisher of one besides pungent and heady. Daytime amass to no outstanding avail, and our passion, which proposals to a faquir trail, goes into itself, quieted by bed and pity.

THE AMYTAL TENT

Luminousness filters considering the amytal sheet, care it did once as you lay beside your loved one. Then, you raised it with bended munition cashbox it bellied handle a tent in the Arab Nights, wherein the warm-up brightness floated, you both floating in it and in your laughter. This was justify of its yesteryear and future, unfettered bodies and emotion fluid in the amytal tent scented by her presence, again you saw each differential differently for those red-faced moments this lodged in memory, forever.