The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Joyelle McSweeney and only time – embodied

and only time – embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences – can tell

A quorum of crows will be your witness

privacy en spionage

dat die grond zich verplaatst

1797–1869) Urdu Divan

The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Joyelle McSweeney and only time – embodiedLieke Marsman In The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, "I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and examined." Founded on this same principle, The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes was written in the three months following Dutch writer Lieke Marsmans cancer diagnosis. A series of short poems anchored