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vowels space, flocks of birds, mapping plans, composing ourselves intently We see our bones as our both innermost and outlasting remains, rarely do we think of them as the fossils of our movements, except when they ache. We can feel our bones structure us like a building’s walls, but outside of that intent, we quake in life regardless. The difference…

When I was learning how to pour molten bronze into lost-wax hollows burnt out from slapped-over investments of plaster, in order to create Consorts to the Mountain Goddess, my teacher in metal Matt Carney would say to me, looking at… my dad-bods My dad-bod figures of Gog & Magog (from a series of Deloraine Adonides never poured) “Why don’t you…

St Ciarán's Church overlooking the harbour Image: Colin Park via CC BY-SA 2.0 via eoceanic.com In Divining the…—gap I mentioned St Ciarán and the ruins of a stone church, making special with the dead, because sacrifice, amid the holy graves and their lovely bones. And in this sacred loss, a ruined wall with the gaps of a wooden structure in…

Christopher Brennan calls the gaping issue an ‘annoying wobble between’. I like that, it is less pompous than my Janus dancing the two-faced ratios. My wife Mona went to ante-natal exercises called Pregnastics here in Hobart, and her classmate, an old friend, Anitra, said that it was ‘really just a wobble and a chat’. Our to-be-born child is now 21…