A utility amongst the swallows is their music; they use it to avoid collision. John Cage, 36 Mesostics re, and not re, Duchamp In China, it is the year of the rooster. Here I say it is a centenary for the ‘defamiliar.’ * I am […]
The Mental Dislocation is a Wonderful Feeling
Listen to Carly Stone read from their work as you read along below: https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/mental-dislocation-SAMPLES.mp3 Reality Soup A clove of garlic so big that I can barely get my hand around it. I feel like one of those farmers at the show. Have you seen the picture of the old man who grew the world’s biggest […]
interpolated visions @ indeterminate intervals: moth, thin night, brilliant sky, dense night, tear gas, & shrouds
Listen to Brenda Beardsley read her work as you read along below: https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Interpolated-FINAL.m4a [Interval] moth Night nudges between shade & window. A moth flusters at the screen, needs to be in, while I yearn to be out. Cool air carries a far-away voice. Across the road, reedy, pubescent bodies gather in what is left of […]
Window Portrait
GROUNDING IN GLASS FRAGMENTS During the first summer of Covid-19, at the height of the movement for police reform when “defund” still seemed a viable word, my pregnant partner and I took a trip to Georgia’s coast and stayed at an Airbnb in Brunswick where in February Ahmaud Arbery had been murdered in the streets […]
This view, uncomfortable / a verge
Marin Headlands Military Batteries, Northern California Until the body feels something different, it cannot act differently.—Deane Juhan The wall is four and a half feet thick. I meant to begin: Speaking of violence . . . And I would write about these tunnels. A tunnel allows a silence to be broken. I’ve entered these as […]
Bird of One
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/audio_bird_of_one_leah_umansky.mp3 1. My mother always told me that everything is scary the first time you do it. Sometimes, I have to remind myself: self it’s okay to be scared be scared then, get over it There are not so many givens anymore. 2. I just celebrated another Hannukah […]
Editor-Note: Suede: Material Literacy; There Are Needs You Can’t Perceive
Fence 37 is filled with works by poets and prose writers ready and willing and able to name past and present conditions, problematize them formally, and propose complex futures. One condition we have is human over-production, over-consumption, and waste: a big problem which negatively impacts our viability as a species. I can identify myself and […]
PLEASE SCREAM INSIDE YOUR HEART PT. 2
Read part 1 here. 6. Now that it is safer to go outside I find myself driving alone to different towns to see friends I have only seen on the screen. In between these towns, I often find myself alone on dark roads lined with endless trees, literally driving through another void, uncertain how long […]
Please Scream Inside Your Heart Pt. 1
This is a silly regret, as they all mostly are, but I sometimes wish I kept some kind of archive of the media that held some significance for me in deep lockdown. One video that would have definitely made the top ten list is one that came out in the middle of the summer of 2020. […]
IN THE FLESH: an introduction to a portfolio
I am a rabid fan of “rotters,” or as more politely called on the BBC show In the Flesh, those with “Partially Deceased Syndrome.” In the Flesh is a show you must see, streaming everywhere—a deeply profound, witty, and ultimately deadly serious work of literary art and performance that takes on what life itself is […]
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