Cathy DeForest
Ashland, OR
Title: Evening Hieroglyph
Author: Li-Young Lee
Edition: 100
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Price: $50
To purchase, please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.
Colophon: Letterpress printed on Stonehenge paper.
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The Text Featured on This Broadside
Evening Hieroglyph Li-Young Lee
Birds keep changing places in the empty tree
like decimals or numerals reconfiguring
some word which, spoken, might sound the key
that rights the tumblers in the iron lock
that keeps the gate dividing me from me.
Late January. The birds face all
one direction and flit
from branch to branch.
They raise no voice
against or for oncoming dark, no answer
to questions asked by one
whose entire being seems a question
posed to himself, one no longer new
on earth, unknowing, and yet,
still not the next thing.
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