This could also be called the book of crows as there are so many flying through the pages.
It was also during the tenure of this book that I created a set of stamps for the imaginary kingdom of Akshara. The book contains notes on the designs, and the mythology which underpins the commemorative issue. Here is the first day cover with a return address: Kingdom of Akshara Royal Postal Service Overseas Philatelic Bureau.
Book 21 contains this poem:
In the springtime there is air
and the bite of foliage:
transactions of weather and
hesitant abundance.
Certain clouds are without
youth or age, no age but
impermanence, no youth but
apparition.
I once knew a man could
forecast with a mirror, save
halos and vapours in amber
forsaking the light bodies of
dead insects, as everyone knows
the dead are without souls.
If I awake sometime past
November, we must negotiate
the year; times of harvest and
repentance. For each of us
there is a season, for every will
an August, for every soul
a disturbance in the air.
Here is a list of books.