typewriters
are better midwives
than computers

To compensate for their only child’s
weakened leg, his parents sent him from
the age of three to karate lessons,
forbidden by the state.

a small boat
snakes
down the straight river

1976: His boxroom, high in a high-rise, had a
board bed, small out-of-reach window
and wall-to-wall plain, brown books -
Aristotle to Zola.

Tristan Moss

This pamphlet is a melding of haiku-like poems and reportage. It tells the story through brief glimpses of a Romanian revolutionary starting in the 1960s and finishing in the 1990s. Copies can be obtained from Red Ceilings Press

If you have any thoughts about this poem or this publication,  Tristan Moss  would be pleased to hear them