Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Make no bones about it — In Japan the family of the deceased perform a bone picking ceremony which occurs after the body has been cremated. Some of the bones remain partially intact. In British crematoriums the bones are ground to ‘dust’ in a machine called a cremulator.
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Make no bones about it
Hollow flight stems, the flotsam
hooked in the wrack and grasses
all drying in the salt wind —
gannet’s keel, sheep’s vertebrae
jaw of a mountain hair
Listen
Brittle, bring it close, we lie with it within
bending, deep in the marrow, sponge
hydrating, renewing, reshaping itself
over and over as we tread, curve, carry
feel it in your bones
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Swing
dance them
settle in
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The long thin Japanese chopsticks
that pick and pass the remains
patella, pelvis, scapula, sternum —
placing them upright in the urn
dispelling the myth of ‘ashes’:
here, the cremulator that grinds
the dead to powder
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The top rib that dances on the breath
the bottom that fans the bellows —
and below, the heavy plumb line
a wide anchoring keystone
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Hammer, anvil, stirrup, cochlea —
the small, snail spiral of the inner ear
hear the call of the rag and boneman
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Femur stacks in Cambodian killing fields
Skulls of the disappeared in Chilean desert
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Arnhem Land bones in Canberra warehouse
Lakota bones in Colorado Museum
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credits
from Faultline,
released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded by Jer Reid.
Sound produced and mixed by by Saleem Andrew Mcgroarty for Sound Signals Productions
Saleem Andrew McGroarty
Saleem has been creating music In Edinburgh for over 25 years. In recent years he has produced the first Sound Signals lp "Soul Searching Vol I", for Joseph Malik, Out of the Ordinary and the debut lp for the Edinburgh Psychedelic Soul trio Check Masses, “Nightlife".
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