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the witches  \n# THERE’SA WITCHIN THE WORD MACHINE\n\nJenni Fagan  \n poygo    \nFirst published in Great Britain in 2oI8byPolygon,an imprint of Birlinn Limited  \nBirlinn LimitedWest Newington HouseIo Newington RoadEdinburghEH9IQS  \nwww.polygonbooks.co.uk  \nCopyright ◎Jenni Fagan,2OI8  \nThe right of Jenni Fagan to be identified as the author ofthis work has been asserted in accordance with theCopyright,Designs and PatentsAct I988.All rightsreserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored,or transmitted in any form,or by any means electronic,mechanical or photocopying,recording or otherwise,without the express written permission of the publisher.  \nISBN978I846974632eBook ISBN978I78885 I046  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library.  \nTypesetin Verdigris MVB by Polygon,EdinburghPrintedand bound byTJ International Ltd,Padstow  \nCONTENTS  \nThere's aWitch in the Word Machine  \nISpell for Hope and Renewal3Natural Born Itinerant4Spell for One Who Dreams They are in a Vast Red Room 5Backing Dancers of White Rabbits in Suits6Sunday Afternoon7Spell for the Futility of Longing9Spell for Waking in the Museum of the Lost Generation IISpell for Loneliness in ParisI3Spell Written in a SquareI5An Old Fashioned CourtshipI6I Fall in Love All DayI7Spell for One Who Feels as ifThey Will at Any SecondTake FlightI8My House is Not My HouseI9Want20Gertrude and Alice22I24Spell fora Woman in Waiting25Do You Remember?29The Bones of the Witch’s Tree30Ode to Unconditional Love32Gringo's Whiskers33Hackney35Spell for Someone Eternally Restless36Living with Dharma37Tales of the Old Country38Spell for When You Cannot Breathe in Paris fora Day40Swan4IBangour Village Hospital42Spell fora Stomach that Cannot Keep Food53She is Not the Cat's Mother54  \nSpell for God56Spell for Bellevue Street57You Know58Spell for Someone Who Had Not Dreamt of aUnicorn Lately59It's the Silence That Gets to You60Spell for Something to Covet6IO.C.D.62Spell for Someone with a Feather Tattoo and IllicitThoughts64Spell for Earthbound Angels65St Bert67IWant to Be the Kind ofWoman68On Loving Men with Beards70We Are Edinburgh75IDo Know This76The FirstTime77Addict78Sentient Being79It Wasn't Nice the WayYou Conducted the Orchestra8oIt Doesn't Always End Well8IResponding to Life in a Secret Squirrel Universe82Death in Sednaya83Holding Yourself with Dignity85Spell for Angels in Paris87  \nAcknowledgements  \n89  \n# There's a Witch in the Word Machine\n\nThere's a witch in the word machinespell-casting:  \ndots,particles,atomselemental,bodiless,  \na typing shell!  \nThe nothing sky has no good intentions.Go beyond it.  \nTimber wolves bay in testimonyas fingertips trail light:  \nargot,idiom,double-grave,slash-through  \nwords have no pure notions...they are flesh  \nstrongand ventricle-poison tipped arrows,  \ngouge them out  \nwith a sharpened athame.This is no thaumaturgy  \n(she can'tleave the word 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