Maria Sledmere
a stung mallow_milk bottle (.) moreish
contusions of gelatine forbidden directory
in spoken rinds, electric celery artifice
flavour of noon.all th noise.cool chartreuse
@ candied massif _ relic the relish! severed
peel of original botanist orris angelica lure
the typical style apparent to fluoresce in
topiary haze of neutral spirit//cuts to fall
an ornamental cascade of scented oils, luff
and aft as round a sail the liquid flapping
light prevails~window shake~impermanent
moment of burr in juniper cochlea it is
always moisture, message, mixolydian pour
to lycra highway_dairy chord in major
longing the spring-caught DNA daffodil
play to minor, dr00p of whey & diary clef
except the mode as glistening~handpicked
in meadows of the Actual,,overripe pinelike
the fruitier seeds make sage of taste, here
foil-curled luxuries left of lemon the pungent
art of sick linalool all mellow distilled ___
pare our way out to cirrus ++ b i t t e r seville
as leftward narrative ground to fix (?) short
cut harvest saw almonds in halves / delete
cardamom paragraphs numerous to app
lies inside <happiness> papyrus insert of
the hieroglyph kiss, its spice of blue gloaming
kindled + plagal cadence w/ twist of orange
how-to save://missing our seas and sunsets.
Maria Sledmere will soon begin an AHRC-funded DFA in Anthropocene aesthetics, ecopoetics and the everyday at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of A+E Collective, Gilded Dirt’s founding editor, co-editor of SPAM zine and occasional music critic/collaborator. She blogs at http://musingsbymaria.wordpress.com and tweets @mariaxrose.