The Long Form dutch this is poetry meant to

this is poetry meant to conjure a healing and provoke a confrontation

'it’s time / for love / in the time / of dollar store cutlery'

alluding to the material conditions that permit some people–tourists

Romance or The End takes up the tools of romantic narrative in order to perform the rupture between self and story that occurs at the onset of trauma

Willem van Toorn

The Long Form dutch this is poetry meant toKate Briggs Its early morning and theres a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully shell sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It is a day of movements and improvisations, common and uncommon rhythms, stopping and starting again. As the morning progresses, a book The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding gets delivered, and the scope of the day widens