Sandsnarl

Jon Stone

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The Emma Press
2 July 2021
ISBN: 9781912915798
Paperback
36 pages

From the publisher

Sandsnarl is a pamphlet of poems by Jon Stone.

The Thulr of Sand, Whose Mouth Hovers Eternally Above a Cup of Mead, Orates the Beginnings of the Age of Sand

 

Before there was a now, there was a jar.
The jar contained a sandstorm, an infinitude of sand
that twined and tore, intensely muscular
and infinitely busy in the enterprise of sand.

 

It lingered in a storeroom, on a lip
of shelf behind some milk crates, a small and secret thing,
till someone missed their step or lost their grip,
delivering a tremor that impelled a teetering. […]”