Nathan Bowles PLAINLY MISTAKEN (2018)

 

a quarry, largely abandoned, plateaued and graded, cranes rusting on the shore of a lake that may be dug deeper, or may be stocked with fish in secret, fish not for men but for the birds of prey, or other creatures to come

Nathan Bowles WHOLE & CLOVEN (2016)

 

“Learn the true topography: the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out.” – R.A. Lafferty, The Devil Is Dead (1971)

Nathan Bowles A BOTTLE, A BUCKEYE (2012)

 

I've been thinking about my compulsive book-buying, and I think it is a collector's urge I've always had, but maybe moreso it is a promise to myself that I'll have time to read, it's some blind swing on a 3-2 count that hours will be made and provided, hours beneath trees, beside rivers

Nathan Bowles NANSEMOND (2014)

 

It does not seem to me … that we understand the laws governing the return of the past, but I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry, between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like … – W.G. Sebald, from Austerlitz (2001)

Daniel Bachman WHEN THE ROSES COME AGAIN (2023)

 

God save the Gazans because God knows we won't