Image poem - after Leslie and Jackson

Mother (nature)

Spurting sentiment
Messy, wet nostalgia of suckling
The first surfeit of unaccustomed food
The first warm connection
Brown teat in white mouth
Industrialise! The White Revolution! Down with the vegan agenda!
Mammy Mehturt, wolf-suckle, heavenly cow
Mercurial milk of The Best and Most Agreeable Wet Nurse
Beware the black snake, uninvited milk-sibling
Beware Hera, her anguished scatterings of stars
Capital streams into pinching pouches, unpaused
Untouched, aseptic
Unchallenged contextomy
Untouched by the filth of human mindlessness
Milk of human blindness
Mechanically ejaculated
Hidden in pyramids
A substance geometry, like Adam’s concrete
Modular, space-saving, profit-tightening
Dumb, passive cow, teats heaving?
We can’t sell that – get a cat in
A chromatic aberration, Goethe’s prism encased
Refracting the colourless (white) within
A canvas for a thousand flavourings, or white, or every other colour
Colours at the edge of spiritualism, colours under my pressed eyelids
Imaginable and unimaginable
Dreamlike
Absurd
A palette for a thousand nightmares, the bomb’s corona mushrooming onto pageant suits of white, or every other colour
The Dairy Queens’ camera-ready grins of white, or every other colour
The blinded eyes of white, or every other colour
Or black, like daybreak
Lit from inside the glass like Hitchcock