How to Put out a Fire

Ned O'Gorman

1984

Remove from the field all tinder: nettles, the straw clown, the paper fan, the old man's yawn, the kit, the mauve dalliance in the shadow. For the shade will not be pierced with runnels from the sun, no matter how the clay strums for potter's fire. The hedge will not trip the brimstone in the dirt.
–Ned O'Gorman

Cloth
This edition is out of print

Designed by Howard Gralla; Typeset and printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler; Bound by Moroquain.

48 pages, 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches

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