Lawn Care
Pale thorns reach from emerald wings. I kneel in the clay-dirt and pinch the root stem of bull thistle. Exhume. Blood drops gather and wash my calloused fingers. I twist at the wrist, and the outdoor faucet beneath the window screeches. Water traverses the slight hill via hose, a green snake with a yellow stripe […]
from: like a dog
dear h, right now my sex life is made up of only dreams, both waking and dreaming. i see m, and occasionally f, quite often while sleeping. you don’t know them and don’t really need to know them or our backstory in order to hear about this dream. in it, m and i travel by […]
me to my face (as someone but I forgot who)
15 January 2018, 9:05 am Midwood Later on, or in another book, there’ll be a video of me walking around the Musée d’Orsay & you can click play to roll the footage & you can watch & you can listen to the everyday sounds of a museum as you read this & in that way, […]
constant critic test
constant critic test
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elecment
January 1st (Ruben A)
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: 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 onion? […]
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: [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 the […]
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 […]
