11x18 cm, 16 pages, 250 gsm natural Strata card cover,  sewn with green twist.  Cover illustration by the author.  ISBN 1 903090 05 9  Ordering Information Click here for the full text of Without Asylum. to listen to Without Asylum in Real Audio format.  for a short essay by Trevor Joyce for Trevor Joyce's Sound Eye website.

from Without Asylum:
 

true we may surmise
how a knife hatched
out of meat
should fledge
 
 
 
 
 
 

span with blade
then unexpectedly
take flight onto some sill
moult there with clutch
 

of fist falling from it
arm with balance
of muscles altering
to lift and lay
 
 
 
 
 
 

its murderous
intent and disturbed
dreams and brood
how everything broken
 

so they say points
to the unbroken
forgetful is it of what did
the breaking as I witness
 
 
 
 
 
 

my own loathing
and desire walk
through the dreaming
labyrinth of my child
 

while detailed depositions state
how further on
within the wood
whose skew bent
 
 
 
 
 
 

registers which wind
prevails itself perpetually
ragged and worn
from ocean breath
 

and sun and every flame
it quenched in its far
fetch the bright axe
blossom suddenly
 
 
 
 
 
 

the long bones lever
up from it like anthers
and beyond the startling
calyx of teeth