Waves and tidal skies make imagery of oceans and starlight mnemonic, possession lives in softness and the feeling of a shared “our” sets one alight in soft blaze. Words are given room to be made sonic, voiced by the reader and held as gentle breath-turned-breaks.

Here the plateaus, mountains are shaped by wind and rain, their sounds move from one to the other finding home in places made various. Within these fields listening evokes spaces weathered in safety, made real by a shared commons and by a shared world of words.

Publication Details

listening
by Foster Mickley

Words by Foster Mickley

Edited and designed by Isabelle Olivier and Hideko G. Ono
Softcover, 51 pages
133 x 210 mm
Signed and numbered
90 copies, bound in varying covers

1st edition June 22nd, 2024
2nd edition April, 2025
3rd edition May, 2025
black cat day dream press

Published by
black cat day dream
52-3 Horiike-cho
Koyama Kita-ku
603-8145 Kyoto

multitudes are expressed and variations can be found in hues unfixed.
listening is currently in its third print run and moves between shades of lilac, apricot, willow, and blue. Bound in threads of beige to lazurite