Author’s note: How do deep time and personal intimacy relate? What can Earth’s tectonic structure teach us about the cyclicity of love? Diagram and language sourced from Earth Structure (van der Pluijm & Marshak, 1955) and John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, this piece explores the unexpected parallels between geology and human connection. My […]

Kaitlyn Airy “Primodia Study” Stephen Danos “Empathy” and “Spectators” Haley Joy Harris “The Soul of Anything” and “Care is the Moonless Cape of Tenderness” Dasia Moore “Water May Still Flow on Mars” Tommy O’Rourke “Received Pronunciation” Eric Pankey “Weightless Sleep” and “Afar” Max Schliecher  “I Am Immortal” and “Georgics I” Ken Walker “London Air as […]

Mythic arena         red planet         hot heart with spear and shield   —    Reports of barrenness                   may have been               overstated             life springs unlikely       or sprang               recently enough       suggests it could        spring on […]

I Am Immortal All emotion is pleasure. Remember that. Hard for me not to fanboy over you. Your robot eyes flickered a violet and marshmallow hue that seemed to chide us. It was just a little harmless virus. Rain and fire wimpled decal stickers stuck across the video game box. So the hero must travel […]

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/London-Air-as-All-Air-read-by-Ken-Walker.m4a The only time Parliament left town, they blamed the boreholes. In Joseph’s canoe, arms were found floating next to clovers growing out of the pestilent mudbanks. Bazalgette begged others to consider the miasmic as if it could become an occult. But before the king, there was the crown’s cause beneath all those irretrievable, counting […]