Virgula Christina Chalmers Using these records and voices

Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census

the poet would respond with a montage of his own

A way towards life

circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity

Virgula Christina Chalmers Using these records and voicesSasje Janssen (trans. Michele Hutchison) I long for a full stop, but my Virgulas are wary of employing them, I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck Virgula, the Latin word for a comma, is what moves thoughts and languages forward and what stops the stillness. In Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every