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14x21 cm, 16 pages, 250 gsm natural Strata card cover, sewn with green twist. The cover design is based on a Huichole yarn painting. ISBN 1 903090 09 1 Click here for Rupert Loydell's review of Prelude etc. (Rupert Loydell is publisher of Stride Magazine and Stride Books.) See below for extract. |
from Prelude:
Rest
happiness
peace
why is the white so
difficult touched
suddenly
the tendril travelling
& the leaf with it
hacks at the
pillar the gate the
facts chips at
plashes the
pillar at the front of
the house a huddle
in the rocks
the pillar the vine
its soft white
stone
wandering beyond the puny
into the light net
this pillar
this vine hard to in shadows
discard patterns that
smash their way
into yr face anyway to let go
the lattice & as you’ve
seen it just as & in
a flash you’ve noticed/frequency
times length/then smile
dropping ripples
onto the watersurface
where
tiny
eggs
fell
lightly
wind
around the
edge of the
base of the
stopped
stone pillar beside
where to keep
putting
the betterparts together
under pressure
against
Despair/rest
happiness/
then
(peace) in an access
of wisdom
sit
down shut up
the pillar
takes
the wind (times length)
whatever it was that
was possible to
be true to this difficulty
where fl = v & v
is velocity
the light in the heat
& the Light Apart
from all
that too a fly on the page
lands & disappears
a good ten
years on yes (times length)
(good) the pillar the
vine
arched at a black dog
brown dog/in full/
the pillarvine
hacks this pliant
this pliancy
this young
vineplant attached
to the rocky
edges
of the pillar
& in a rain
of names
absorbency
storyline
two-way
three-way
in section
vertical
cut across &
down
rest/pillar/
shock — curl —
happiness
peace/the pillar
the vine the
soft
white the pillar
the soft the
light
vine then just
don’t think
don’t
look don’t
brea-
the.