Domestaccato

By J. Aleksandr Wootton

This second creative collaboration between Wootton and Hirst isolates a domestic staccato from the high-volume background of modern life.

39 new poems, underscored by 13 original illustrations, play on latent individuality as an often subordinate but always powerful theme in family life:

How much do modern households really cohere?
What makes togetherness psychologically nourishing?
Do weakened family bonds leave us more vulnerable to ideological marketing?

Deepest magics are bred on this hearth:
warmed brick and whistling kettles
story-tongued salamanders clambering up chimney walls...

But the lintel of our door is laid like a yoke
across my shoulders. We bear it with us going out
and we bear it with us coming in...

In the pantry, by the box of bread
someone has a flashlight hid;
close by it, on upper shelves
is tucked away - a book of tales.

I can't say who (at least, not yet)
might journey to an hour's end
from the hollow space beneath the stair
when all the household's unaware...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1981408193
• ISBN13: 9781981408191
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"