Sunday, January 29, 2017

book of the dead

1
cover
touched,
both wounds and sustains
2
size duodecimo, today referred to as 12 month
pocketable yearling
transportable
3
(front matter)
typologically variable
cursively signed
4
title page
scribbled
and struck through
subject to revision
often inscrutable
(there are exceptions)

It is easily overlooked.

5
table of contents
a prescription, an unruly outline
accompanied by
scholarship, incantations, prophecy, sacrament and
other rites of passage.
6
a list of illustrations
tipped-in, poorly pasted, even newsprint slipped here.
records are hierarchal.
images aren't always ascendent.

there is nothing to rely on.

7
preface
expectations for
8
acknowledgements
your identity
9
introduction
a self portrait or biopic
10
forested body
illusive

a wilderness of

11
an end to it, a shutting and placing
with other real things

committed to memory

12

a rectangular black box

filled with snow.