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Cover of Flame by Randolph Healy 13x21 cm, 28 pages, 250 gsm natural Strata card cover, 
sewn with navy blue twist. 

Cover illustration shows code for the mitochondrial DNA of E. coli. 

ISBN 1 903090 13 X 

Click here to read Steve Evans' review of Flame. 

Click here to read Robert Archambeau's  interview with Randolph Healy at the Notre Dame Review website. 

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from Flame:

I
 
friction
 
percussion
 
hidden inside trees
 
four men walking
 
two side posts an upper door post
 
in his right hand seven stars
 
algor  rigor
 
livor
 
voices rarely
 
ascending or descending together
 
a movement / contraries
 
finding unfathomable spaces
 
around which grammar
 
shapes no shapes
 
punctus contra punctum
rods firing under change in intensity
 
constructing an edge
 
the straight line as curve of zero curvature
 
ó ghlúin
 
an effect of scale
 
permanence
 
having pulses
 
zero a simplicity
 
straining to catch
 
barely audible improvisations
 
escaping the gaps
 
between angle and try-square



 

 
I V
 
man crossing the street
 
warm
 
dark liquid
 
trees simulating animating
 
the sound his skull made
 
Xpos Ypos Zpos
 
quiescent innermost zone
 
non-luminous
 
the
 
heart
 
outliving        the
      the                               kidneys
 
 brain           outliving
 
both
 
surrounded by dissociated
free incandescent particles
 
open to the living
 
 temporarily
 
yet the transition a shock  as
 
___________ disrupts response
 
 
with its own lines each with their own ends
 
continuity a regular disposition of gaps
 
the absence of mirrors
 
a third invisible zone
 
 
sodium orange-yellow
potassium lilac
calcium red or yellow-red
four walls
 
roof
 
floor
already a tree’s agitated shade
 
folded at ninety degrees
against its side
 
where he stood wiping his glasses
 
the permanent stain
 
the reflection of his own eye
 

 

copper bright green
lead livid blue
 
the attraction a reflex
 
wing motion reduced on the side struck by the light
 
causing it to turn towards the source
 
where the name applied
 
reverses the tonal values of the subject
 
thus growth
 
the city
 
founded taken recovered destroyed rebuilt incorporated
 
soaring in thermals
 
a little-known system
 
contiguous with
and fed by more than thirty streams
 
the current heating a semi-conductor
 
lowering its resistance
 
increasing the current
 
raising its temperature
 
lowering its resistance
 
increasing the current
 
raising its temperature
 
lowering increasing raising
 
lowering increasing
 
the Spanish word for yellow
 
a gilded cupola
 
rational
 
since woven by the same chaotics as  mind
 
and twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be
 
salsa                  lake
 
harp   lava
 
sled                     nebula
men    doeskin
 
 
having neither length nor breadth nor width