Lifting the Veil by John E Marks 1997 NHI: antiquarian poetry for the discerning non-conforming unbinary collective of a certain closely undefined uber-class or occasional caste.

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Published by New Hope International (NHI) in 1997.
Illustrations by Clinton Cahill — thank you Clint!

Reviews: Lots of enjoyable and very readable poetry Poetry Update.
Lifting the Veil is refreshing both in the simplicity of form and in the way the poet uses words — his own and those given to others — unfussed, clear and immediate to the reader. In all these poems the poet is visible, which also makes him vulnerable Iota.

SHELLEY

Low-slung August sun shadows stonework into the
deeper shadow lands —
phantoms adrift on the wide Sargasso sea —
and so unruffled, these lawns,
and all this frumpery.

So much then has time
and its opposite
done for me.