Transmitting messages over distances First Published In the new journal Artesian with original contributions from John Berger, Don DeLillo, Anne Michaels, Jan Svankmajer, Iona Heath, , Rosalyn Driscoll and many others, alongside articles on the spiritual geology of place, tunnels, imagination.

Transmitting messages over distances

it is in my mind to tell you that you stand like a dancer, like an ogre, like a shaman, like a child in a rage. You are certain of your gravity. You are holding your breath. Stars lay their dust on you. Foxes play by your feet. Light passes through you. What holds you together might come unstuck as things that hold us together sometimes do

it is in my mind to tell you that my daughter is watching High School Musical on the TV in North London and she wants to be Hannah Montana. Right now she is arranging her facial muscles and body posture and vowels and consonants to become someone who can sing her way out of conflicts with bullies in the school playground. It is in my mind to tell you that my daughter's eyes look like oil wells lit at night. This is the earth we share and talk about in strange ways.

it is my mind to tell you I transmit these thoughts to you from the tripe shops of Smithfield market to the marshes and silent canals of Hackney East London to the suburbs of Nizhniy Novgorod Russia to the curved bay of Cadiz Spain and on and under and it is in my mind to tell you that all thoughts whatever the material, can be bent like a spoon

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