Travis Macdonald


excerpts from Bookquet

Curator’s Note

The following poems are transcribed directly from text found on the cut and folded petals and blooms of upcycled paper flowers. Proper citation of the source texts is impossible since the titles and content of the books used to create these bouquets are unknown to the curator beyond what he has gleaned through the process of transcription.

he spent y. He disliked being a in any danger of having to inability to relax. Alex enter people back from the studio o for Vincent or Zolito to remind els of the past. at the Royal w e in the hotel, his suit shoes were handm and at ilm studios we for his own use and hen his adaptation of s”) became the first Hun clear that the young K His phere of brothers counted except actresses, and role in family English ins some not the dreamy city of Franz al conventions had made xposing disagreeable realities. h a huge capital city, rather as d. Austrian agriculture could so the farmers hoarded their existent, since most of the ich was now the separate collapse of the Aus grounds troops marched into Rumanians before them, at that “order would entail have remained were system pulation of Budapest was banks of the Danube ants and officers thy, with the blessing of If the film industry had fasci out of all proportion in the imag movies represented exactly the kin at heart, hated most hem asked the other. replied his companion, “but Communist kike, Korda the cent manners.” I from attacking the two office- overs and whispering in his ear he was in the Gellert and so and the elevator of these o mistic udio space for th n 0,000 crowns to draw on, A urbs of Budapest, with the help tune had a good followed the sparks in he life exceeds in its ruthlessness s and rats, and it had bowed him. hat boundary beyond which one is no stubbornly he repeated: “Darling! You yourself                               for me one year

At the far wall, a sat on a small bench apar and her heart, which something which could no haps he had been sent off on ing out a special assignment. secrecy imagined secrets even The hot southern summer burn Yet she on as before, stud materialis raid of displeasing torn out the title p that no written messages co risoner—the inscription must go eb told her angrily, “Don’t bring me ble, one of them a none of them. She hated convers the Supreme Cour he exaggerated the value not openly everyone!”            peated ene                                husbands ar                                also troubl                                r’s agil                                all                               model ha                              he law nowada                               alma’s dict                               out t riage without pay most jurisdict ollow still a sense of unwavering hey might grow into adults who conclusions other than the ones in s might work well if the morality th bad, where will we find our dissentin g, Jr., or Daw Aung San Suu Kyi? rn is that we really have no adequa ange. We can theorize about why ery and segregation for three hun until the 1960s—but we can never people do change their mind because somebody else because reason their es, but it is hurting our o not have time to stop and t have time to figure out right fro ve time to live according to our simply put, that we do not have set down: she her discernment of right a nd has been willing to say quite doing it. be satisfied; the reason I chose in ng with the discernment of right and quite simply, that our own beliefs uppose one’s principle is, ‘Yield to n,’18 Indeed, our own beliefs, no bly evil. The philosopher Stuart a person has lived a blameless es, the question always arises

Travis Macdonald is a poet, copywriter, editor, and small press publisher currently living in Philadelphia. His most recent books include: Title Bout (Shadow Mountain Press 2011), BAR/koans (Erg Arts 2011), Hoop Cores (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press 2011), Sight & Sigh (Beard of Bees 2011), N7ostradamus (BlazeVox Books 2010), Basho's Phonebook (E-ratio 2009) and The O Mission Repo [vol. 1] (Fact-Simile Editions 2008).
 
 
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