Flight of the Jaguar | Update #2 | The book is shipping
These are part of the updates I sent supporters in 2019 as part of my kickstarter project, “Flight of the jaguar”. A collection of poems.
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Hi there!
The book is ready! 4 of few already got their signed copies. Some non supporters bought theirs! I know a few of you personally and will be handing the books to you when we meet. To be safe though, I’ll ask all of you to fill this form with your shipping address __.
A book signing performance is happening end of May and you’ll all be invited. That’s it! If you want to read more about the book you’ll get, read on below.
Thanks
Halim
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The book was printed in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
The paper is not white. It’s beige.
It’s smooth and almost lures you in. It lures *me* in.
The cover is like a Japanese cup of tea.
Like an old tennis shoe from a vintage shop that’s been broken into far too many times.
It’s imperfect.
It’s perfect.
It’s recycled.
And you’ll see
The cover
Has no author name on it.
Your book has no author.
Maybe it felt like *a lot*
To have my name on the book
Like marking a child
Making sure the world *knows* where its roots lie
Why would you burden the child
With a last name
With a history that isn’t theirs
If they haven’t claimed it yet
A name on the cover would’ve broken
The design of the first page
There was no reason to have my name there
Because the book is yours now
Because these poems aren’t mine
They never were
Do you own a song you’ve listened to?
Is a rainbow you’ve seen yours?
Do you appropriate the world as you witness it?
The author is the listener
The author is the hollow bone
That whistles as the wind blows through
As the spirits catwalk where the marrow lied
Creation, like a good massage, is the work of both
The practitioner and the receiver
The tree that falls alone in the forest makes the loudest noise
And you know because I know because someone was there
And knew
And closed their eyes
And cringed and
Maybe smiled
That nature is doing its thing
That the dance is on
And nothing and no one else is needed
For dance to occur
