It’s great to have a slightly more experimental poem out in the world, you can find Lysergic Triptych in the latest issue of Five:2:One magazine.
The poem uses a triptych structure, each of the three panels in the poem working with the others. Using the three panels I aimed to stretch the poem a little, distort the time of the narrative; and get people thinking about how, in memory, often repeated occurrences can slide into what seems like a single event. Panel 2 is below, if you have all three panels they jigsaw together into a single poem.
Five:2:One is an ace print and online magazine, you can get a copy of issue 16 here. There’s plenty of excellent writing and some great artwork from Arturo Guilliano Celestino – including the image in this post.
Lysergic Triptych – Panel 2
We played
endless games
on the blade
manners,
precision darts
– 501, 501, 501 –
the barrel of his favourite
rubber
Three games
with arithmetic
lessons and chalk dust
was the future,
all we cared about were
Rico Craig 