The Love Sheet
By Barbara Fairhead and Jacques Coetzee
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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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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