Percy Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Creative Writing MA, November 20, 2004

  
        Participants: Alec Finlay, master, Ira Lightman, host, Maria Choustoulaki, Kostas Hrisos, Lesley Mountain, Nicolas Spicer

                ARRESTED FRACTALS

	This morning a new pony
	to charm from hay
	with torn dark grass

	a blunt sun, puddles
	outlined in white

	Do the stamping trick!
	catch the magpies
	stealing a silver penny
	
	walking backwards now
	I keep an eye on me

	we always like kilts
	at a wedding
	buttocks all chilly

	feasted tablecloths
	spilt coconut oil

	aching scarlet torsos
	and orange peel thighs –
	deck chairs sag

	down below, bored
	heat lies between us

	your fist clenches tight
	knows which letters
	treble

	finding solutions
	rather a problem, right now

	the clue is in the paper
	Essex secret agent 
	B S LD N B D

	peppermint tea bags
	left behind

	coat on back to front
	hood full over
	moonface waves me off

	here is my territory
	starve in your own

	snow poles wait –
	freezing dawn
	dislodges the stars

	for the living salt
	for the dead a compass

	tonight's homework –
	test all the metal
	in the house

	in his dreams
	the keys grow roots

	underwater larva
	unfurls fractals
	out of each arrest

	the goldfish in the bubbles say
	hello, hello, hello.