Some Alternatives To Flock by John Bevis

Published by Coracle. ISBN 978 0 906630 36 5
48pp offset with letterpress cover, 175 x 130; sewn paperback. 2008, £8.00
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A collection of found poems and verse from 2005-2008. This example, Manykhot, is from a text found in the in-flight magazine of a local feeder airline in South East Asia:

According to the legend of Puyeu Yayeu
whom have believed to be the people
are the people who made the world
said that on a small island locating
the uppermost part of the waterfall
there is a sacred tree called Manykhot.

The tree that occasionally produces leave
has grown for the time of many generations
and nobody knows exactly how long
the tree has grown so far
but obvious thing is the tree doesn’t grow
more than it has ever done

as it still has the same size
and has only three blanches.
The long legend said that the tree has sacred
as if a person or animal like bird
is eating at least a small amount of its blanch
the person or the bird will have forever lives.