
JL Williams' After Economy (Shearsman, 2017), second selection
A continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained star-white. A lake speared with dead trees whose white trunks stab the sky. The ribs of angels up. from 'Desiderata Nocturne' a raven stands in the jade grass still as a carving in onyx watching the blood drip out of the car soak into the soil dye the frond-like curls of ferns from 'Blood on the Trees' In order to smell the smoke in the dark r