May 1, 2015
Meanwhile, and Anyway
Otherwise, what of empathy, or any way to get there: upriver, and then what? Leaves, or the burst and fall of them, or just the stripped-by-now branches—comes to all the […]
May 1, 2015
A Polysituated Ode with Occasional Demi-boustrophedon
Odeshock —Walter Murdoch We’re all in it together, this place, that one too: passing through, born here, born there, overlays and more: tangential butterfly effect out of the flailed hedge, […]
May 1, 2015
Escape Fable
… place, where violence is rife, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion … —Georges Bataille Groundwater seepage forms these silty pools. But to make an image there must […]
May 1, 2015
The Song of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow
Trebles through my tinny speakers hauled in by a mouse-click From an archive at Cornell How sound travels these days! So clear, I can almost see the bird Swaying on a […]
May 1, 2015
Horse Blood Medicine
The animal looks from face to face, unworried. The train is full of strangers. Snow along the holy river breathes white steam. Name a border the human world can’t unglue. […]
May 1, 2015
The Water Column
1 Snake Mackerel From the bathyal snake mackerel surface— diel vertical migration from one darkness to another, eyes round as the moon, or rounder —cutlass fish feeding on clouds of […]
May 1, 2015
For the Wind
jerks the grasses on their stems circuitously, in the descriptive tradition, flaunting the tassels whipping them, around, around fleeced culms nothing vapory, ancillary, about this stead you move inside glazed […]
May 1, 2015
Out the Birds, Out
the stones. Out all things that can fly or be thrown. But you—your woody throat, your knotted toes. Did you know where to go? Did your world swing high, then […]
May 1, 2015
Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. “Sea of Dreams”
Allison Hutchcraft From So Legged and Footed Swampland. Bog. Mare aux Songes. “Sea of Dreams” but the translation slips. I think a song to sing before the singing’s done, a […]
May 1, 2015
So Legged, So Footed, and Who’s Left to Care?
So legged, so footed, and who’s left to care? So your days bottomed out, so your luck stuttered then stopped. So here a foot, a pinioned wing, so ankle, thigh, […]
May 1, 2015
Sea (and Other) Tails
[Bernard de Maillet, eighteenth-century French consul and cosmologist/naturalist claimed that] billions of years ago … a great sea had covered the earth. All life came into being in that ocean. […]
May 1, 2015
Field Guide for How to Pioneer the Midwest
Gun. Axe. Tent. Salted pig. Barrel of cornmeal. Seed corn. Bushel of seed potatoes. Land at five shillings an acre. A day’s pay. If there are woods, make your house […]