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13x21 cm, 20 pages, 250 gsm white Strata card cover, sewn with azure twist. ISBN 1 903090 04 0 See below for extract. Click here to read Robert Archambeau's interview with Randolph Healy at the Notre Dame Review website. Click here to read Robert Archambeau's article on Randolph Healy at the Read.me website. |
from Scales:
When it happened
in an inaccessible space
in parallel with a configuration of neural states,
was this itself part of the happening?
light on wet branches takes the shape of a tree
a light tree
six minds speeding by trace it instantly
February.
A pebble beach near a railway track.
Genevieve collects treasure in a straw hat.
Florence, fully shod, goes paddling
while Margaret looks for ###### for a mosaic.
Beatrice wants milk.
Lustre is what gives them their beauty
and shimmering iridescence, the bright
yet deep seated sheen on the surface created
through the reflections and refractions
of millions of microscopic layers
Not that Gorgias, in arguing that nothing really exists,
that if anything did exist it could not be known
and that if knowledge were possible it could not be communicated,
sorted it
noticing the noticing but not the means
as if the world snake had a head but no body.
One by one each starts at the advanced decay
of a cloth dinosaur. A train goes by.
Amplified, the embryonic heartbeat
an extraordinarily gripping clattering
and a gallery of grotesque characters
confronted with the conflict between
mirror mirror
Zugzwang
no matter how much to your disadvantage
Signals reflecting off ######### or hills reach the antenna
a little later than those that travel directly
making a ghost, or second image, appear on the screen.
what seem to be specks of dust resolve
a past
pierced by harmonies
desolate
fertile
##### feeding on itself
among a procession of icy bodies
cloud seas lands turning
the summed light of billions
sensitive damaging
two refractions one internal reflection
a city
cut cabochon
as a gem
energy in transit ### streets
reduced by distance to a brilliant glaze
where limbs and torsos
tread light
#### freedom chance
tensing and releasing
in response to microslips along
res ipsa loquitur
relatively although not absolutely
stick bone reed metal graphite
Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
famuli tuorum
Solve polluti labii reatum Sancte Iohannes
…
whose skeleton still jigs, sounding the scriptable, up a twisted
rope ladder, down the serpent's gape, structive in/de/con,
ta | ta |
ta-te | ta-te |
tafetefe | tafetefe |
tagafagategafega | tagafagategafega |
talagalafalagalatelagelafelagela | talagalafalagalatelagelafelagela |
concentric furrows, rungs and gaps, gamut, given or
imposture, abbreviated experience, Guido's Harmonic
Hand, taking two, sex, like the enchiridias using lines but
also the spaces between,
thus down
into
so much pain
beneath our corrupted city
the boom of water
and
herds of naked souls