Sean G. Meggeson

punishment machine

 

 

asphodel anamorphis   sits

body   perennial   stays   but 

nothing in actuality   stays

only a wire   sings  

fence noise radio   plays  

into midnight   casts

nothing notes   except for example   

Milton marginalia   mic'd

for sound for wind   effect from centuries past   for

larky epithalamion   wire wind creation   a machine

is closest   b/c everything body

unremembers   feed-

back   backs  

nothing

the word 'chamber' in actuality

in Greek pls.

written in stone  dials

written in frequency pls.   crusts  

then harpsichord Henry Vaughn   

plain noise   states    

body bent   bull shit radio song  

this in fact hurts

 

Sean G. Meggeson is a poet and video/audio/spoken word artist, living in Toronto, Canada where he works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with his dog, Tao. He has been published in a range of journals and magazines, including Antiphony, bethh, Die Leere Mitte, Ice Floe, Version9Magazine and others. He won the League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award in 2024. Meggeson has published three chapbooks, Cosmic Crasher (Buttonhook, 2024), ta o/j, and soma synthesis (both from lippykookpoetry, 2025). Forthcoming: a full-length poetry collection, j: poems (primitive press, Toronto, 2026) and an EP of spoken word & soundscape tracks, The Capacity to Be Alone. Sean is poetry co-editor of Blood+Honey Literary Magazine.