Frag Meant Meat

http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/audio/not-what-siren-sang-what-frag-ment

Not What the Siren Sang But What the Frag Ment (for Margaret Alison)

From the 7 ¼ floppy record borders included in the box bp, published in February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario).

Appeared in

Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer

Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer is Nichol's very first book. Originally published in England by Bob Cobbing in 1967, and then in Canada in 1973 by Nelson Ball's Weed/Flower Press

New edition with introduction and notes by Nelson Ball, Coach House Press, 2004

A pdf copy of the 1969 second edition made from the copy housed at the University of Victoria Library is available through the bpNichol archive

http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/konfessions-elizabethan-fan-dancer-1969

Note how the Title Lines align.

NOT WHAT THE SIREN SANG
BUT WHAT THE FRAG MENT

The first stanza is built up out of anagrams.

leaf    autumn    sky
flea    umantu    kys

"umantu" looks like "ubuntu" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy — a trick of a sky kiss

And so for day 2336
06.05.2013