filial arcade and other poems this work is licensed under the creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivs 3.0 unported license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ printed by lightning source, milton keynes in an endless edition (version 131221) isbn 978-94-91914-00-3 uitgeverij, den haag shtëpia botuese, tiranë editore, firenze 出版社 , singapore www.uitgeverij.cc : a staley groves , images by marco mazzi Filial Arcade & Other Poems. For Robs, see you at Big Splash. filial arcade 17 stars pult apart obsidian earth eyes with stars? pulls apart slow mouth desire circles in lungs the de- sidus ex- sidiuos did not realize such a drive the presence of a naked body. wants taken in. to find peace. to be buried. feelings obscure in expression star face scrawled in scars, or pult apart in stars. longed to shown, in this world, the face there. 1 18 as there have been others, who wrote hierophant figures there, beyond expression here. mapping the intelligence of a palm the fingers gentle a grasshopper’s antennae a finger slips, behind the neck a finger rest, in the old brain the finger taps, brain stars spider hand opens the wings of the old brain the wrist. ... 19 the instructions of the hand the unspelt the water in the hand the respite the water gone black. the breath circles the lungs the obsidian circles with stars pulls apart the lips. the unlearning of thinking in the kiss beyond milk, beyond ...