ALT This is Ankh - he's a pale human with long brownish hair, a short goatee, and many facial piercings. Here he's holding his book 'The Water Engine' against his cheek. His expression is crinkled eyebrows and tear-shine.

ALT The dedication page from The Water Engine, Ankh Spice's debut poetry collection. Centred italics read: For Caitlin, who billows with me in the wind for as long as we circle For Diana, whose songs and stories were the first water And for you, all you ambulant seas, taking it all in, flinging your shoulds to the whoosh. May you return to the source drifting and light and unafraid

ALT The end acknowledgements from "The Water Engine", Ankh Spice's debut poetry collection. Text: My penultimate thanks are for the heart-coven of Femme Salve - to dear, dear Amanda, Eli, and Beth. You so unexpectedly threw this manuscript a life-ring when it was all but swallowed by water grown suddenly choppy and cold, and well - you saved the poet, too. My gratitude is its own whole animal, swimming for his life. My last thanks is for you. Yes, you - with that miracle brain translating all these words into something personal. What you're holding in your hands is a life, and it continues to breathe outside this engine's mechanism by the strangest and most unexpectedly beautiful magic I can imagine - time given freely by every human who ever read a word I wrote.