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    The Love Sheet
    The Love Sheet
    The Love Sheet
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    The Love Sheet

    By Barbara Fairhead and Jacques Coetzee

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    The title should have warned me. On reading the title poem, I realise any of the poems is a gateway into this passion with compassion, into a garden whose fragrances colour every sound lovers make when words have to cope. Make the lovers poets, see how each facet is etched, each jewel worked and polished. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Hugh Hodge
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherModjaji Books
    Release dateSep 29, 2017
    ISBN9781928215523
    The Love Sheet
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    Barbara Fairhead

    Barbara Fairhead was born in the UK in 1939, and has lived in South Africa since 1948. She is an artist, sculptor, fiction writer, and the lyricist for the band Red Earth & Rust. She has published two books of poetry: And Now You Have Leapt Up To Swallow the Sun (1997) and Word and Bead: The Presentation of a Journey (2001). Of Death and Beauty, her first novel, was published in 2013 by Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its sequel, Whereof One Cannot Speak, will be published later in 2017.

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      Book preview

      The Love Sheet - Barbara Fairhead

      Copyright

      First published by Hands-On Books 2017

      PO Box 121, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa

      info@modjajibooks.co.za

      © Barbara Fairhead and Jacques Coetzee

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.

      ISBN (print): 978-1-928215-50-9

      ISBN (ebook): 978-1-928215-52-3

      Cover design by Megan Ross

      Cover artwork by Lauren Smith

      Production by Fire and Lion

      Contents

      The Long-Dreamed Dream

      Shipwrecked

      Soft Rain

      Apocalypse

      Song for the Duende

      I Have Prepared for Winter

      The Love Sheet

      Dusky Song

      The Journey

      The Question

      The Cry

      Faith

      I Fall Into His Face

      The Flashlight of the Mind

      The Mating

      The Madness of Growing Things

      Casa Milagro

      Symposium

      Brief History

      Dark Place

      Leaving the World

      The Silence of Trees

      Sleep

      Heretic Sky

      For a Young Poet

      Fugitive

      Contract

      Beyond Our Means

      A Future Memory

      Commitment Ceremony

      The Matrix

      House of Loveliness

      Howl

      The Rim

      For Jacques

      The Slow Art

      At the Edge of Myself

      The Sound of Distance

      Edges

      Descent

      Bridges

      Turning-Point

      From Across the Room

      Stripped Down

      Rage

      A Thing Apart

      Full-Moon Vigil

      Tides

      Death by Moon

      Stillness

      A New Voice

      Wind Chime

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Haiku

      The Apprenticeship

      Fragment

      What We Live By

      Late Summer

      Shards

      The Road Heads East

      Singing-Bowl

      The River Beneath the River

      Wild Place

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Clock Time

      Tokai

      Autumn Drive

      Your Bright Future

      Switch

      Ode to Mystery

      The Inner Work

      Stone Cottage: West Coast

      Happy

      Afterword

      The Long-Dreamed Dream

      They found the sheaf of love poems

      after she died:

      a fair armful it was;

      and were amazed to learn

      that their mother,

      always so circumscribed

      in matters of the heart,

      so far beyond such yearnings,

      had glimpsed

      —somewhere between

      the never-ending daily chores

      and the long-dreamed dream—

      the young lover

      waiting

      on Ithaca’s breathless shores.

      B. F.

      Shipwrecked

      Today I assert nothing:

      no thing obeys my call.

      Today I am a shipwrecked sailor,

      panting on a beach in blinding sunlight:

      bruised, battered, but alive.

      I am the shipwrecked lover of the world,

      panting naked on the shores of wonder

      without words, without a song to my name—

      only a steep dirt road before me

      and the thin rope of my astonishment.

      J. C.

      Soft Rain

      What I remember of the day:

      soft rain;

      and the touch of our fingertips’ shy

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