The unnamed narrator coats the stones like rain. He says: There is logos inside the logo, logic in the log, but watch the long-sleeved willow in autumn as it sways: willow, hold your suede over the colossus of loss, your shadow strides the forest seeking seeking. He says: Where the blackbirds fire songs a story emerges. The king of the country of rain sets out to find the mouth. He writes in the dusk of the something thumping. Fump of a closing car door. Dense winds assemble limbs, light pulses on the pond after the thrown stone, one wind of the screw locks knowledge. Through stopped doors the whale booms. Where language rips language apart is where language starts.
Giles Goodland’s books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023), A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022. He has worked as a lexicographer, editor, and bookseller, and teaches evening classes on poetry for Oxford University’s department of continuing education, and lives in West London.
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