Mudlark No. 17 (2001)
Emptiness is a long story
that swallows up heaven and earth
a splash of ink turns into two dragons
stray clouds become an azure dog
Shih-shu (Trans. James H. Sanford)
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Contents
Two Sisters Who had Wandered
The Previous Tear
A Young Breeze Gets Restless
The Thing
Say The Cloud Boy
Someone's Been Eating the Moon Again
Rain the Modifier
A Man in Black Shoes Walking Slowly Because His Case Is Heavy
This Morning, Breath is Jealous, There's an Inch of Red
Reminder Too Long to be a Sonnet
A Charm Against Captain Poison & Captain Seafish
A Sleepy Town, One Black Marble
In Passing
Clouds & Green Police
Here (and There)
Blueish City
Orphan
What the Sleeper Understands
History of the World
Miss Joy's Gone South
Letter Home
Crossing the Sea of Kansas
Weekday
Of a Man in the Road