{"id":313,"date":"2020-06-18T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:39:44","slug":"resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Read: “resilience”<\/span>Fran Lock<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

he says, whose preferred flag is a\u00a0 blank cheque. on<\/p>\n

mornings made pejorative with foxes. pissy macho<\/p>\n

stink of them on everything. the grim, diminished<\/p>\n

sting of drill, its glitchy phobic diss and bleat. stuck<\/p>\n

on repeat. like foxes. solja boys<\/em> gekkering thin<\/p>\n

threat up from behind the wheelie bins. these, our<\/p>\n

russet buccaneers, sarcoptic monarchs, swaggering.<\/p>\n

hey, there are kids who live in circles in these fluxy<\/p>\n

flats, gaunt stooges sent on errands in the petering<\/p>\n

sweetness of five a.m. i have seen them. meet in<\/p>\n

unruly communion half way home. trammelled<\/p>\n

scent of skunk, its soft green feelers groping<\/p>\n

a grammar of sleep. somnambulist caesars. pale<\/p>\n

laureates of insomnia. something in between.<\/em> we<\/p>\n

have breathed these corners into dawn together.<\/p>\n

seen the ornamental resin of my pit bull’s eyes<\/p>\n

catch fire. resilience<\/em>, he says, who thinks all dogs<\/p>\n

are hounds. <\/em>sleek forms to thread his vengeance<\/p>\n

through the hedgerow, fen, and meadow. no. he<\/p>\n

doesn’t know. he has not read their fickle glyphs,<\/p>\n

acrylic scrolls of early-warning, alphabet of risk<\/p>\n

along the tracks. these narrow pastures are our<\/p>\n

country. <\/em>aggy edgelands slack with flowers. hey,<\/p>\n

there are women here i’ve seen to gather yarrow.<\/p>\n

could best a falling feather. women who could<\/p>\n

intercept the ricochet of rain. exist in two<\/p>\n

dimensions, travel as both particle and wave<\/p>\n

between the food bank and the chemist. women<\/p>\n

who remix the curt eclipse of mogadon and vodka<\/p>\n

into aria. or, turning on a rainbow’s lathe, draw<\/p>\n

nectar from the bitter dregs of afternoon. fold
\nevery scrap of plant life into fable. names to talk<\/p>\n

this tundra into spring; to make our rags and worts<\/p>\n

and banes the cups of kings. resilience<\/em>, he says,<\/p>\n

for whom all language is an anthem or<\/p>\n

a gambit. tongue as classifying blade, our<\/p>\n

vulgar taxa stripped for parts. but we have<\/p>\n

seen enchanter’s mantle transmute bare<\/p>\n

backyards to gold. burdock, chervil, ragged<\/p>\n

mallows. kept the raving ghosts of bailiffs<\/p>\n

from our doors with fennel stem. sharpened sight<\/p>\n

with elder and with thistle. men, the corrugation<\/p>\n

kicked clean out of them. eyes like slots in<\/p>\n

fruit machines. the zero hour they penalise<\/p>\n

to frenzy. these men have grown crow garlic<\/p>\n

too, could recognise the waft of mint. monkshood<\/p>\n

hint of danger. columbine and cuckoo pint, snug<\/p>\n

hangman in its cobra’s hood. dog rose,\u00a0 bittercress<\/p>\n

and keck. cow parsley. common things that prick<\/p>\n

calls weeds. words atrophied into slogan, gravel<\/p>\n

trough where meaning dies. resilience <\/em>indeed,<\/p>\n

flapping his long mouth like a sleeve. hush, our<\/p>\n

concrete acre stirring. vixen, starling, world<\/p>\n

on fire.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Because politicians love that word. And in recent years it has become a useful get out clause for both climate changes deniers and those who would make a fetish out of working class survival.\u00a0 If resilience is some kind of moral virtue, then those of us who are not thriving are failing. If we are resilient, if the planet is resilient, then nobody has a duty of care toward us, nobody is responsible for the shit they do to us or put us through. It isn’t a coincidence that the poor are disproportionately affected by climate change, by corona virus, by anything else the world happens to throw at us. I have come to loathe this word with mounting heat and passion, and yet, we are <\/em>surviving, we are <\/em>finding ways to exist, to resist, to live. And they’ll have to learn from that in the end, from us, because we know how to go without and make do with less. It’s all our futures, we’re just ahead of the curve. Sometimes it feels as if the way we live- the city, these houses- is hostile to life. All life. But we are alive. Nature pushes back in a variety of surprising ways. It infiltrates. It adapts. We adapt too. There’s hope in that.<\/p>\n

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Fran Lock<\/strong> is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and numerous chapbooks, most recently Contains Mild Peril<\/em> (Out-Spoken Press, 2019). Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, \u2018Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma\u2019. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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