This montage was assembled from footage shot in Chicago, New Orleans and Oxford between January 2006 and April 2007. The title image is Tom Raworth’s left hand at a family restaurant in Indiana (9.21.05). This instance of video-work is intended as a constellation of props at the poem's disposal.

The poem was recorded in March 2007 at the request of Jow Lindsay, who made it available on the Bad Press website: http://badpress.infinology.net/ (London). The sound behind the reading is Ric's midi version of Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?", but specifically four copies of it playing simultaneously from different starting points. The soundscape alone was made for this page of cat gifs.

Sections of the original poem were published in a few journals in 2006: Megaphone Piggy 2 (Oxford Ohio; eds Peter Drummond, Rachel Smith-Romanchik et al), Psychic Rotunda 6 (Toronto; ed John Barlow), Skald 24 (Wales; eds Ian Davidson & Zoë Skoulding), Intercapillary Space (UK; ed Edmund Hardy) and BlaveVox (Buffalo; ed Geoffrey Gatza).