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Dear M,

I received your booklist too.

And would have contacted you regarding that,
except that I have most of them already.

Nothing replaces the spoons.

Remembering this, that;

"if you add or subtract one, you change multiplicity." (ATP),

I bet the same sorcerers
still lay in wait
at the edge.
Always haunting the fringes.

War-machines looking for reasons.

Just give them one
and they might come out
to play.

What happens when a flat line
becomes a fault? Time to shake
things up?

Suffice it to say,
printmakers everywhere
are very excited about
the Year of the Rat.
All those visual metaphors
drawn to inky becomings.
Let's see what it conjures.

Regardless.

Happy New Year, M.