Wild Honey Press has just published _Dark Ground_ by David Miller. It
contains five pieces: Legend, At the Heart of the Thicket, Dark Ground and
For Patty Waters.
16 pp, hand sewn, printed by deskjet with card cover bearing a colour
illustration by fabric artist Louise Mac Mahon, it is available for £3.50 /
$5 (p&p free in Europe) from me or Peter Riley books. (I take Visa or
Mastercard)
Best
Randolph Healy
PS Here's an extract:
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-The naked bulb doesn't emit any light; but across the room, light comes
from another bulb hidden beneath a shade....
I felt the necessity for some other rede, equal to the pressure of
ineluctable loss.
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A shepherd and his son witnessed my friend excavating in a remote area, and
pitied him and his fellow archaeologists for the penance God had imposed on
them. This friend dreamt that he alighted from a bus at the same stop as a
young woman playing disjointed phrases on a harmonica - phrases that became
more and more frenzied. A short time later he saw her again, as she plunged
down from a high building; and her body lay bleeding and lifeless on the
ground.
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Someone is poised at the door, divided by thoughts of going in and of
staying where he is. Willful hero, he bears an engraved bracelet to remind
him of lions that were slain. But I think of the procession of poor,
variegated beasts, bleached, gilded, or empurpled.
-All my fear rises up; and it is not for him, but for you. Don't linger in
this place, dear.
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