Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
Joshua Edwards
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Joshua Edwards is the director and co-editor of Canarium Books. He’s the author of Imperial Nostalgias and Campeche, and translator of Mexican poet Maria Baranda’s Ficticia.
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Two alabaster hands close one book
as a dying animal drags itself out of another.
The gesture of the hands is a simple benediction
that means grateful to learn language and sing.
The animal is the awareness of dust and decay.
Modern parables composed in half-light
are always terrifying. A popular one tells
of a retired scholar's first play's first performance
cut short by a powerful earthquake.
Another relates the tragedy of a choir
that escapes from a boarding school, only to be
slaughtered by a larger choir that has escaped
from a more prestigious boarding school.
How many innocent bodies have climbed out
on the limb of romance, over freedom's abyss,
only to have it break? The number must
approach a hunter's ideal. As the sun devotes
itself to uncertain lives, morning will paint
yonder hills the colors of a convalescing earth.