A5, 40 pages, Colour printing, Saddle stitched, Softcover, 2024

Here’s fresh real allegory of moving parts, drywalls, antlers, definitions, cup and ring marks, ‘things growing out / of other things’. By way of the River Washburn, the title riffs on Nathaniel Mackey, who writes: ‘Dinosaurs and birds popped into my head, the thought of them having wishbones in common. The wishbone struck me now as an emblem not necessarily of extinction, a harbinger of ostensible extinction evolved into flight (From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Vol. 5, 2014). As Maggie O’Sullivan says of these poems, ‘Bearing in on the “throat voice [that] / will not be reconstructed”, the tongue hears/heaves up this land in layered, burning, soaring song.’ 

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