Thought is/ Your Shout (Rough)

Poetry by Stephen Middleton

Thought is/ Your Shout (Rough)

Binary. Loops. Face-to-face with definition. Prolepsis. Leaps. Density - the key. Frosted now - penance for these thoughts. Noughts & other crosses. Mindfulness Law (lore) - (a) thought is not (a) fact. Acting out. Your shout. Someone else's final straw. Scores on the CBT chart. Fermenting still & every other contradiction. Trickster riffs (lift). Declensions redeem. Squint into almost focus. Tidy that up a bit, Miss Smith.

Stephen C. Middleton is a writer working in London, England. He has had five books published, including A Brave Light (Stride) and Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (Poetry Salzburg). He has been in several anthologies, including Paging Doctor Jazz (Shoestring), From Hepworth’s Garden Out (Shearsman, 2010), & Yesterday’s Music Today (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2015). For several years he was editor of Ostinato, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry, and The Tenormen Press. He has been in many magazines worldwide. He is currently working on projects (prose and poetry) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness.