Yes it happened right here, a spot of blood appeared and grew.

— from ‘Scarlet Ibis Variations’, my visual poem sequence published at Burning House Press https://burninghousepress.com/…/andre-bagoo-scarlet-ibis-v…/

Thank you Paul Hawkins for selecting this piece to round off your guest editorship. Around this time last year, some of the first ibis works (heavily influenced by Broodthaers/Mallarme) were published by SJ Fowler over 3AM. Since then, sections were published in The Poetry Review, performed at Fowler’s Poem Brut and Tony Frazer’s Shearsman readings in London, turned into film poems by Soraya Moolchan and Israel Ramjohn (screened at The Poetry Society) and me (screened at the IMAX opening night of Green Screen 2018), and also made an appearance in Wretched Strangers, edited by Ágnes Lehóczky and JT Welch. To think of the germ of this idea starting with Ovid all those years ago. Onward voyagers & happy new year 2019! Xo 

(O & apologies to Henri Michaux)