Caput Mortuum
DESCRIPTION
You must go on.
Gather the fragments so that nothing may be lost.
The stones that call to your body and its bones.
The dull weight of it.
The sutured ground, the cleaving sky.
In all things a dumb consent to distance.
Foulness. Furnace. Fescue. Feces.
This poverty is a promise.
Cormorants. Coccoliths. Glyphs of buried tide.
Lines traced between conjectural stations.
Harmonic cartographies of paling horizons.
Of slow exposures. Of your salt-cracked hands.
These ruins will bring forth rarer splendors.
Hidden since the foundation of the world.
Words by Christopher John Thornhill.
Title
Caput Mortuum
Author
Publisher
Self-Published
Edition
1st
Edition Size
100
Published
2019
ISBN
-
Dimensions
150mm x 210mm
Pages
60
Format
Softcover