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1984 - 1998

1984 - 1998

catachronological clearing-house cry all you want (c. 1998) cry all you want when the stars plough like cars into the Pacific cry all you like for the long machines hanging like canals and candle- flames and pale arms search in the long searing lines of traffic and the sunset look

AFTER ASH

AFTER ASH

is the title, begun in Hong Kong and continued in Türkiye, of a series, to a greater or lesser extent and more or less directly, in conversation with John Ash, reading whom over the past several months has proven very fruitful. Some of the pieces collected for this series draw

THE DEEP (series I-IV)

THE DEEP (series I-IV)

I. I SPOKE THUS I spoke. It was the end of the second world war. Thus I spoke. Let the lesson not begin. Let the lesson continue from the camps. Let the counting begin, let the milling begin, let the great rendering down of the fat of the, of the