William Fairbrother
Philosophical, lyrical, language-based and narrative, confessional and observational, blind and dumb, sacred and profane.

154 pages, 23,863 words, 239 kb (Word.doc), 544 kb (pdf).

© William Fairbrother 1997
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Chronology

About William

(Sample Poem):

I pick lice from your hair and eat them
in return you do mine, driven to find
through reciprocity that divine storm
beyond sensation: the idea of love

creation of your imagination
which I parrot in the form of language;
and you listen, and this is also love.
I perceive your love's effects with reason

and uncover their causes in knowledge.
Impressions I receive from my senses
are flat, glossy, pigmented surfaces
as if experience occurs in film.

So I project my flesh onto your flesh
to show you what you feel that I cannot.

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