Part 2 of Quartermain's *The Book of Words*, begun in 1998's *Abstract Relations* (Keefer). A virtuosic spectrum of forms and voices, timbres and dictions. "Longness and shortness--let this be my focus. / Let cunning platitude come film a pithy juggernaut, / treacle she who spun on ebb / a he or you hewn of domicile's tuft."