Breathturn into Timestead

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Contents

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

INTRODUCTION

BREATHTURN

I

You may

By the undreamt

Into the furrows

In the rivers

Before your late face

Down melancholy's rapids

The numbers

Paths in the shadow-break

Whitegray

With masts sung earthward

Templeclamps

Next to the hailstone

To stand

Your dream

With the persecuted

Threadsuns

In the serpentcoach

Slickensides

Wordaccretion

(I know you

Eroded

II

By the great

Singable remnant

Flowing

Twenty forever

No sandart anymore

Brightnesshunger

When whiteness assailed us

Hollow lifehomestead

Over three

On the white philactery

Go blind

Latewoodday

Today

Midday

Sown under

The hourglass

Harbor

III

Black

Anvilheadedness

Landscape

The jugglerdrum

When you lie

Behind coalmarked

In Prague

Starting from the orchis

Halfgnawed

From fists

Bullroarers

Evening

At the assembled

The upward-standing country

The pushed-around

Ashglory

IV

The written

Cello-entry

Frihed

The silicified saying

Where?

King's rage

Solve

Coagula

Skullthinking

Eastersmoke

Quaywall-rest

Answered

Sight threads, sense threads

A roar

Lunatic-bowls

Lichtenberg's twelve

Give the Word

From beholding the blackbirds

V

Great, glowing vault

Slate-eyed one

Oozy

You, the

The with heavens heated

Vaporband-, banderole-uprising

Rest in your wounds

VI

Once

THREADSUNS

I

Eye-glances

Frankfurt, September

Chance, marked

Who rules?

The trace of a bite

In the eternal depth

Visible

Detour-maps

Sackcloth-mold

Spasms

Your eyes in the arm

Hendaye

Pau, by Night

Pau, Later

The stallion

The ounce of truth

In the noises

Lyon, Les Archers

The heads

Where am I

The long discovered

All your seals broken open? Never.

II

Sleepmorsels

Truth

Out of the near

Hatched

Eternities

The perty saxifrage

The between-whiles

The successful

On the rained-over spoor

Whitesounds

The devilish

The dark vaccination candidates

The second

The excavated heart

The industrious

The colliding

In-heavened

When I don't know, don't know

Acclimatized-disclimatized

Giant

Neighed tombprayers

The eternities honkytonk

Trashswallower-choirs

III

Dedeviled instant

Shells

Love

You were

To the right

The dismantled taboos

Rage-pilgrim raids

Silence

The one

Over mulled and toiled wine

Aslant

The heartscriptcrumbled

Unkept

The unconditional chiming

Eternity

Late

The seedlings

Along the hill lines

Come

Deslagged

Soulblind

Borderess

Gullchicks

IV

Irish

The ropes

Dew

Lavish message

This day

Oily

You with the

Out of angel-matter

The free-blown lightcrop

Line the wordcaves

The highworld

The muttering

… though no kind of

Near, in the aortic arch

Throw the solar year

Because you found the woe-shard

It has come the time

Lips, erectile-tissue

V

Principalities, powers

Daybombardment

Speechwalls

Orphaned

Of both

Rolled-away

As colors

The chimney swallow

White

Bare one

The silence-butt

Haut Mal

The pigeon-egg-size growth

Bewintered

Outside

Who stood the round?

Dysposition

No name

Imagine

TENEBRAE'D

Unscrupulously

After the lightwaiver

Explicit

Forced off

Heaved far over

Do you throw

Contested stone

Tenebrae'd

Shovel the void

Irruption

With us

LIGHTDURESS

I

Soundscraps, visionscraps

Night rode him

Musselheap

Scooped with the ashladle

Larded with microliths

Gone into the night

We already lay

Contact mines

Who sided with you?

Reflection-laden

Cleared

Beaconcollector

A you

What threw

II

Once

Hatchetswarms

Precognition

Two at Brancusi's

Where I

Long ago

Todtnauberg

Sink

Now

To a Brother in Asia

Jostled

How you

Highgate

By lightning scared

III

Discus

Knock

The escaped

In the darkclearings

Scattered property

The letter read from

Cut the prayerhand

What's required as stars

I can still see you

Nothing but

In the void

The loamy sacrifice downpours

The wildheart

IV

The eternities

Heartsound-fibulas

Grown weary

An extra dollop of night

Behind froststreaked beetles

The Irishwoman

The left-to-me

Repudiated

Productionhangar

In the vesicle chamber

Magnetic blue

Outfall

The mantis

No halfwood

Webbing

Addressable

V

Oranienstraße 1

Well-like

With dreampropulsion

For the larkshadow

The cut-through

Wan-voiced

Sounddead sistershell

Weathersensing hand

In time's corner

Me too

The backwardspoken

Gradually clownfaced

Roadblockbuoy language

To fly under

VI

Delusionstalker eyes

Unwieldy morrow

Notepaper-pain

Strew ocher

Swandanger

Leapcenturies

Sourcepoints

Trekscowtime

You be like you

Do not work ahead

SNOWPART

I

Unwashed, unpainted

You lie

Lilac air

Welldigger

The breached year

Unreadability

Whorish else

What sews

I hear the axe has blossomed

With the voice of the fieldmouse

In lizard-

Snowpart

II

The to-be-restuttered world

You with the darkness slingshot

Enjanuaried

Be sloppy

Parceled goods

From abeam

Woodfaced

Largo

To nightorder

To speak with

Something like night

III

Why this sudden at-homeness

Why, from the uncreated

Mapesbury Road

The overloaded call

Darkened forth

With you, ragdoll

The runic one too

Your, even your

Wallslogan

For Eric

Who doesn't plough up something?

Gillyflowers

You transfathom

For Eric

Your blondshadow

The abysses roam

Your mane-echo

IV

The in-ear-device

The halfgnawed

A leaf

Playtime

Out of future-past fate

Open glottis

From the moorfloor

Highmoor

Oreglitter

Einkanter

With pruning hooks

Loessdolls

V

Steeluginous visionstone

And strength and pain

Raised together

Falling rocks

I stride across

Lightrods

One reading branch

Tear your

Chalk-crocus

The cables are

In the access hatches

And now

Rapidfire-perihelion

We the overdeepened

Behind the templesplinters

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