Simon Taylor
A Piece of Fabric, Tell it to the birds & lying in long grass - for my parents
I wrote A Piece of Fabric for my father, Anthony Frederick Taylor 2 January 1937 – 24 April 2009.
I read A Piece of Fabric at the memorial service, held at St. Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, 29 April 2009. The service went over four hours. Raymond Boyce spoke, Roger Hall
a piece of identity – monologue with slideshow (2008)
C stands in front of a black and white video still – the face of a woman in close up.
C
One must first divest oneself of the notion of the unknowable, of the Unknown: silk is over the photo, silk of the process. A procedural coating, like albumen – silver nitrate
enantiomorphosis: the messianic | Danaë, or resistance
by the fact that I am here, you gain everything; by the fact that I am not, you lose nothing.
OR
I AM THAT WITHOUT WHICH THIS IS NOT.
OR
the surface cannot make contact with the surface.
BEFORE EVERYTHING WAS MANIFEST
Danaë, or resistance
Almost a thousand days at
a short history of original thought in New Zealand – screenplay (short)
the cemetery of principle, part 2 (link to part 1)
EXT. FEDERAL ST. ENVIRONS — MORNING
Our man, BERNARDO, hurries across Federal Square, radio mic in place!, in front of us: he is aware of the cumbersome nature of our apparatus but keen to show us something.
BERNARDO
There’s something
World City Christchurch – building a city for the future
presented to Christchurch City Council soon after the earthquake of 22 February, 2011. I have revised the following slightly to present it here.
We, the people of New Zealand, make the gift to Christchurch of a glass-fibre infrastructure along with a data-pipeline connecting it to the world.
This
a journey (2016)
from Redcliffe to Craig Larkin's death
I
does it last
the night a deep
a deep fissure
suspended day
like ash
light
half
the half tolting
belief-ridden
down the grain
grey
of a
twilit beach-head
what measure
round sleep
sleep curled
in sleep’s organs
lungs