When I was younger, I worked for some years as a tutor for a little boy who was the scion of a very wealthy family with its own peculiar culture and a whole battery of customs I never fully understood. I lived in a little cottage on the family property. Besides me and the boy, […]
Year 2089
A valve opens. Electrode fluid enters your brain. You feel the whole Anthill inhale…and exhale. They tune their instruments.
Fumarole
The vending machine cast a fluorescent triangle into the darkness of the hotel lobby, a glow that seemed not to illuminate the floor but rather to float millimeters above it. We stood in the empty doorway. No other lights were on, inside or out, and the night sky behind us was a wash of black […]
from Logophobe
To download and read “from logophobe” by the Blunt Research Group–as intended by the author(s)–with correct pagination and lineation as a pdf from the Fence issue #40 forum, please click on the below blue text. Lower-quality (in terms of the pdf) images can be seen below the link. blunt-proofs-bluntresearch-40
Exquisite Corpse as Breaking Down & Before Complexity, There Was The Way They Echoed Each Other’s Laughter Like Bleachers Underfoot
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Exquisite_Corpse_as_Breaking_Down.m4a Exquisite Corpse as Breaking Down The first one came after Gram’s diagnosis / I snagged my running shoes / a turkey tail jutted from my left ankle / I shoved my foot in anyways / I ran past carolers / I ran on a full stomach / I ran past swarms of twinkle lights […]
Two Visual Poems
CLEAVE https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Cleave.mp3 FOUND SONNET https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Found-Sonnet.mp3 My debut book is THE FEVER POEMS (2021). Recently read and highly recommend: LET THE WORLD HAVE YOU by Mikko Harvey and FRANK: SONNETS by Dianne Seuss. Currently reading: GUT by Amanda Larson and A SYMMETRY by Ari Banias. https://www.kyliegellatly.com/ https://www.kyliegellatly.com/publications https://www.instagram.com/kyliegolightly/
TESTING for Kylie
BUT ALSO THIS: Correspondences for Etel
PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of unlawful assembly, the kettling and the batons, came the bicycle scouts having returned from recon to sound the alarm, into the sidestreets, over the fence, be like water, the mad rush […]
Surrender
I am being escorted outside, held upright by two women I hardly know. I can feel their strong hands, their fingers gripping my forearms, gently leading me with soft determination, step after step into the waiting car. It is a cold December night. Under my feet, the stone steps soak up the rainwater, their […]
Angel of Death
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/01-Angel-of-Death.mp3 FENCE is happy to be collaborating with The Blight Record Project in sharing “Angel of Death” by Brian Evenson. The Blight Record Project produces audio adaptations of contemporary classic short stories printed to vinyl. Each edition is printed in a limited run for rare collectors and audio storytelling fans alike. The debut full […]
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