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Revolution NOW [02]: Vanishings

By Peter Donnelly

Vanishings

As money vanishes further and further
From the weighted – from gold, coffers –
And thins out into dust motes
And then air, disintegrating through the ether,

Skyscraper light, through
Glass flash-licks across
The plastic card’s intelligence
And sleek designed-in value,

I, a self-generated verbal pointillist,
Vanish into messages
Within white flashes,
Shape-shifting to process and dart

The messed bowels of an information jungle –
That space void of space.
Seas of memories suffer disappearance
With a click. Nothing is irreversible.

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Peter Donnelly’s first collection, Photons, was published by Appello Press in 2014. Following its publication, playwright Frank McGuinness commented that "Peter Donnelly already shows he has a strong imagination; indeed, a savage one presents itself on occasion when the beautiful and brutal confront and confound each other."
Photons has been inducted into the University College Dublin Library’s Special Collection.
Donnelly has been published in Spontaneity, the Honest Ulsterman, Boyne Berries, BlazeVOX, and others.