Tierce is a feint, a parry, a counterstrike, a set of organstops, a band of desperadoes, a measure of provision, a hand from a marked deck, a major chord in a minor key, the surface of a shield divided in three.
Intensely lyrical poetry. Love, Life, and Impermanence sung out like arpeggios. A journey of the passionate mind that ‘touches the very lip of the impossible’. A beautiful, exciting collection.
Vaughan Pilikian was born in London in 1974 and lives there still. His previous books of poetry are At Eclipse (2001), Lyrics (2009) and Book of Days (Mica Press, 2018).
O starflake
O starflake,
everdiffering:
your millionyear odyssey
has come
to an end.
Carried here
on solar winds
through the unencompassable,
on the brightest of nights
you have fallen
into me: into me
and far,
so very very far
from forever.
From Tierce © Vaughan Pilikian 2024
