These five line poems, inspired by, but not beholden to, Japanese tanka, are prayerseeds for the people of the future. Like Rilke's Book of Hours or Sonnets to Orpheus, (or possibly a rogue patch in Stevenson's Garden) they are an imaginary hymnal, by turns deeply personal and wholly universal.Written over the course of a year and a day, they are yet another variety of the spell cast in The Esbat Sequence, sQualor// gLamour & Invisible Compositions...
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