Rain Crow Rain Crow Sing Us a Shower
by Sean Stewart
36 pages / half-letter / $4 US
I love writing that surprises. Rain Crow Rain Crow Sing Us a Shower is a zine that draws readers
into the word meditations of Sean Stewart, and we begin to look through his
eyes.
The nature of Rain
Crow Rain Crow Sing Us a Shower might seem straightforward to some, and
slightly baffling to others. Is this prose stream of consciousness journaling
or meticulously crafted wordsmithing? Will any of these prose pieces linger in
my mind or dissipate like clouds in a windblown sky?
Two vignettes definitely resonate and echo in the
windtunnels that are my thoughts: one about a proposed rocket trip to Mars, the
other about a brief visit to a bookshop. Sean Stewart writes like an alchemist.
At times you are drawn to the smallest of details, at others, you slip into the
mood that he has painted with ink on the page.
Rain Crow Rain Crow
Sing Us a Shower veers from the melodious to the monotonous with quiet
grace infused with everyday rhythms. There are slugs, birds (lots of birds),
and rain. There are mysterious cigar smoking men and lunchbreaks. There are
dreams There are interludes that feel like a timeless conversation between the
one and the other..
I suspect I will be revisiting this zine again when in the
bliss of some alone time.
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