Ordinary Time

Book Structure:

1) Some Julian Days comprises poems that employ the cumulative dating of the Julian Day system as an overarching structure within which the poetics of saggital time are evoked.

2) The excerpt from the poem sequence Ordinary Time (an ongoing piece inspired by Charles Olson’s poem “In the Hills South of Capernaum, Port”) works with the structure of the Anglican lectionary and its cycle of daily and weekly readings (called “propers”) from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament to manifest the poetry of a portion – an arc, if you will – of the complete two year-long cycle of readings from sacred texts.

3) Imaginary Time escapes from all of that, deferring both the immediate contexts of the narrative arrow and eternally cyclic.