I Address You

Published by the Lucy Quieter Press, the title of the collage interrogates the' I' and the 'You': 'I' the writer or memoirist, and 'You' the reader. It contains every address and place I have lived in through the use of a Mesostic, which is used as a guide to the collage as each address is numbered. The collage is in a scrambled chronological order as a true order of time might bore the reader with too much sense of simultaneousness, as what I discovered about the world and human...
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Published by the Lucy Quieter Press, the title of the collage interrogates the' I' and the 'You': 'I' the writer or memoirist, and 'You' the reader. It contains every address and place I have lived in through the use of a Mesostic, which is used as a guide to the collage as each address is numbered. The collage is in a scrambled chronological order as a true order of time might bore the reader with too much sense of simultaneousness, as what I discovered about the world and human nature developed at different times of my life. This collage is a combination of diagrams and form, from found poetry and personal letters, haibun, several haiku and prose poetry.The content is loosely based on love and hate. Love for animals permeates the collage.. Anarchism, anti-war, Animal Rights, all draw from my previous activist background. Interspersed are early childhood memories which left me baffled by the way I thought in my youth. Also, attraction and repulsion of men, ex-lovers, the notion of love and romance in general. A going away from and returning.I begin with the 5th address, a happy time in my life, recalling a car registration number from 50 years ago. I move to bad experiences of love in the 13th Address then back to childhood memories of animals and mother and teen years in the 4th Address. The collage continues in this seemingly haphazard way, but is loosely controlled by the memories from a red notebook.My ideal reader would read the whole of the collage at one sitting to enjoy the flow and variety and then re-read by referring to the notes at the end for further enlightenment and a deeper understanding.