Perhaps I am rounding the bend on completing my third full-length manuscript, called Consequence.

This is the picture that I've been using as a front piece for the document, from Andre Leroi-Gourhan's Gesture & Speech:


These are the epigraphs I've used as I've written the manuscript, though it's never certain whether they'll remain:

Between a culture of touch and a culture of thought is the culture of symbolic connection.

ABY WARBURG


Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

LAURA RIDING JACKSON


We always say more than we know.

ELIZABETH SEWELL

And here are the names of the poems and sequences that make of the guts of Consequence:

Table of Contents
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BEAST UNDER BREATH

ELEPHANT & OBELISK

NIGHT SONG

BE IN THE GHOST

RATIOS OF PARADISE

KEPT

1001 SENTENCES

ORPHEUS’ NEEDLE

JACQUES MARSAL’S COAT

NEAR THEE, RECONCILED

THERE ARE WORDS, THERE ARE STARS ABOVE YOU

Kept, 1001 Sentences, & Jacques Marsal's Coat are still in progress.

Elephant & Obelisk is for David Need. Night Song is for Leigh & Simon. Orpheus' Needle has a line from Ronald Johnson at its start ("await composer Sword"). Jacques Marsal's Coat is after Clayton Eshleman & Guy Davenport. Near Thee, Reconciled is after Alice Meynall. There Are Words, There Are Stars Above You is for Brian, Dennis & Carl Wilson.