E v a n G r a y

x^-4

I

base means base in the wrong

side or fraction lines

            //////////          

             flips base to the other side

an instant pecks to unbind

                                 minus four

                                 just means

                                underneath

                       

one solid

               one imaginary

II

what is touch

                                     axis

in relation to that if

                        a portal of vivacious

                        home run splinter

                        side of the work bench

           

         lace stockings picked to preverbal

             tell what would never reach

             likeness

 III

temporary is

blurs of this line

           

            language as

not in numbers

                  said

W a r d S c h u m a k e r

Throat Singing in Drohobycz

Throat Singing in Drohobycz is a hand painted book, page size 18.5" x 12.5," painted on Stonehenge, and bound by John Demeritt. 


The text is derived from Street of Crocodiles, a short story collection by Polish writer Bruno Schulz. In the fall of 1942, Schulz was shot and killed by the German Gestapo while walking home to the Drohobycz Ghetto.