[12/15/25] Williams, Brendan Ellis: Vestigia

VESTIGIA blends archaic & surrealist techniques to create a dreamlike landscape of myth, mysticism, & metamorphosis. Moving through themes of alienation, spiritual longing, & animistic connection, these poems trace a “topography of distance” while opening passages into a forgotten way of being where language becomes alchemy, archetypes breathe, & every element of the world is alive & speaking. Both haunting & hopeful, the poetry in VESTIGIA invites you to step beyond modern boundaries into a wilder, more primal field of imagination & devotion.

AVIAN SCRIPTION

We have visited several islands, misshapen, peddling some few small stones—‘here or there,’ you tried proclaiming, the descent and all its rowings, almost and minor.

If he or the one called doer were named— the borne flesh, idle there as our recording: this closing of day is one left behind.

Unthinkable that the space dispersed where this blossom now begins to wilt. Or you then nearer, over the armature, rust inside the sentences of leaving.

Portraits of the city made invisible. Still sideways we walked all night. There were traces, mouths on every side.