“Reliquary”
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Jai Michelle Louissen created “Reliquary” from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort (1919). Please click here to read.
About the poem and the process of composing it, Jai Michelle Louissen writes:
I came upon Chapter 8 in The Book of the Damned and found the word “reliquary” in italics. I was inspired to write a piece about a shrine. Something in the nature of the chapter of the book as whole has a reporting style, so I took myself on a journey through time to different sorts of shrines. I went through a good section of Chapter 8, selecting words where I could build on the idea. It took me weeks to absorb all of the words, and it became both very simple and very long.