A kaleidoscopic net woven of words
R. Kolewe's A Net of Momentary Sapphire offers three closely related poetic sequences, which are random recombinant rearrangements of a poignant but obsessively repetitive source text. They are streams of consciousness in which no stable self can be elucidated. A broken long poem, this singular net is an interrogation of the aftermath of twentieth-century modernism, looking both backwards and forwards ? an eternal return.


Once again & innumerable times again
the required solitude, renunciation, strange
curtained doubt artifice all jewelled

& after this

silent time, these days
& nights in desert
dry country, dry thoughts
?from ?The foretaste of a vision but never the vision itself?