John Tranter site: DCA workpages

One word from each of four early poems or books by John Tranter

One word from each poem in Parallax

If the languages know the prophecy
beating on the window, confused and singing,
the fabulous knowledge buried under the praise,
the noises descending and devouring,
the sky disappearing in the vision of unease,
the unspoken alphabet is the enemy you shall say is illusory,
the gestures content.

One word from each poem in Red Movie

The quick heat haunts the freeway,
blessing failures. Here is another horizon.
Children electrify each conversation
with rivers of flame.

One word from each page of Red Movie

Movie: the other study whose following memoirs
have malice for balance is gentle strength.
The traveller turns off the city.
Her conversations take mutilated mouthings
and welcome nature with blazing flesh.
New links release another fit.
Personalities will want an aggressive experiment.
You wound the breast of dawn.

One word from each poem in The Blast Area

It’s midnight, and the glow of the questions
vanished. The beautiful flag vanished.
A new style whirls over the crossroads.