Ian Hamilton Finlay
SERPENTS AND
SERPENTS AND
SKULLS
Shepherd Lad KY 216
1975–6
1975–6
Session #4
The butcher carves out half a heart. Placing the martyr down, it leaves scars on the table. In a race for still again, he picks up a blade of lightning, and cuts. Finishing his work with a dusty scalp, he bows, pulls a bent cigarette from his sock,and returns to the old bench.
—continued
Cleaver in one hand, scouring moments for space. Monday breathes in the haunting wind.
When nothing could speak, in a coiling upward gaze, the empty merchant market said; Dancing reparations
He smokes half the handle
The drain swallows the rest
One last time, with real eyes,
a fox stares back
The Bookshop Sessions
Laconic, 1987
Sail/Waves 1 — postcard design
Let Perish the Money Tyr![]()
1982
1982
Peace to the Cottages —
War to the Arts Council
1982
War to the Arts Council
1982
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Passing through a blank face
Eye carry-ons take back the town
The weight has no name
It's only ever been
London Grown
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Cargo Collective 2017 — Frogtown, Los Angeles