Chan Says & Other Songs by Caleb Nichols

https://calebnichols.bandcamp.com/album/chan-says-other-songs 

This collection is accompanied by an EP including a selection of the poems, this creates a rich combination, being able to hear some of the work performed not only unlocks those particular poems but tunes your ear into the whole collection.

A number of the poems are paired with a “redacted” version where the few remaining words or letters from the poems become something new and complete in themselves.

One of the poems

Chan burns her Bridges

I burned one

or two in the

usual way

thoughtlessness

a cigarette

thrown out

the window

the shock

of it bursting

into this

quiet

others though

were more

precise

delicately

lining

each truss

with explosive

silently

setting

each clock