Abundant Number 5

I was very happy to contribute a new poem with informal title 'Locomotion' to the fifth issue of Éireann Lorsung's wonderful micro-publishing project Abundant Number. Abundant Number 5 was published in November 2025, and my contribution was commissioned for the recurring 'Day by Day' section.

"Assembled on both sides of the Atlantic from parts made all over the world," Abundant Number is an irregular, low-fi publication described as "a way of making books together that prioritizes small scale production and material, tactile pleasure." Each issue contains text and images, including a classifieds section. Some include unbound ephemera; others take the form of a staple-bound booklet.

Lorsung writes: "Abundant Number is something between a table of zines at a punk fair, a case of mail-art and Fluxus ephemera at a museum, and the chapbooks we make for our friends. Think about this more as a newspaper of the very local, or as a weather report, or as a bulletin of the everyday, than as a literary magazine. (This is not a literary magazine.) Read, then pass your copy on to someone else. There won’t be hundreds of spare copies to pulp—there will be a few dozen copies to share and send."

Taking the form of 31 numbered vignettes, my contribution to AN5 was composed each and every day between 15 July and 15 August 2025, when I recorded in short pieces of prose minor instances of locomotion and change.

My thanks to Éireann - poet, writer and teacher working in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts, currently Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of South Dakota - for asking me to contribute.