Things Fall Apart

Kirsten Dryburgh, Harriet Stockman, Andrea Low & Melanie Rands

Things fall apart - we're well used to the idea, it's such a cliche, the repetition is wearing down the phrase itself thngsfllprt, the vowels always go first and then the spaces between or maybe the other way around? t h n g s f l l p r t.

Vowels in free-fall out of words, escapees, refugees, letters on the run, where do they go? - a vowel graveyard, like the mythical elephant's graveyard, the Mutia Escarpement in Tarzan movies where ivory [so beautiful but oh so tainted] lies in sparkling piles.