THE COLLECTED
BOOKS of
       RICHARD
       DENNER
                          Volume 6

Thantos, the death-plant in the skull
Grows wings and grows enormous.
The herb of the whole system.
Systematically blotting out the anise weed and the trap-door
     spider of the vacant lot.
Worse than static or crabgrass.
Thantos, bone at the bottom. Saint
Francis, that botanist in Santa Rosa
(Bless me now, for I am a plant and an animal)
Called him Brother Death.
                                          —Jack Spicer
                                              THING LANGUAGE

dPress 2003 Sebastopol

Volume 6, Number One: Breastbeaters
Volume 6, Number Two: The Scorpion
Volume 6, Number Three: A Double Play
Volume 6, Number Four: Pebbles/Koishi
Volume 6, Number Five: Wheel of Time Mantra Blade
Volume 6, Number Six: Worship Dog
Volume 6, Number Seven: Road to War
Volume 6, Number Eight: Songs of Jampa Dorje
Volume 6, Number Nine: Without Goggles

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