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.
