Silence refines itself into noise towards music. A dead mouth speaks through woken snow. Objects reciprocate the leaning woods, a single daylight streetlamp. There are at least a thousand generations pushing from behind, but even so, we brought this upon ourselves.
Giles Goodland's books include Of Discourse (Grand Iota 2023). A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001) Capital (Salt, 2006), Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012) and The Masses (Shearsman, 2018). Civil Twilight was published by Parlor Press in 2022. He has worked as a lexicographer, editor, and bookseller, and teaches evening classes on poetry and linguistics for Oxford University's department of continuing education, and lives in West London.