precursory questions
1. how many home videos did you keep?
2. how many seeped into adulthood, vhs tape wrinkled and blinking back at you the screen a reflection, skipping with white?
hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?
Further Reading
Welcome to World War Me
by Patrick Meeds
“We will / be setting all rivers on fire. You need to learn / to say goodbye in as many different languages / as possible.”
LIP by Kathy Fagan
selections from LIP Eastern Washington University Press, 2009 by Kathy Fagan ONTOLOGY AND THE PLATYPUS So which mammalian fuck-up list produced the platypus, produced the bird-billed, flat-foot, erstwhile beavers dressed like ducks for Halloween? Crepuscular and nipple-less, they suckle hatchlings in the changeling dusk— Diaphanously the god-swan boned a married chick and she […]
Suspended in Middle Distance: On Arda Collins’ Star Lake
by Emma Daley
Collins’ spatial poems knit together the natural world––trees, light, stones––with her specific history of violence, loss, and survival.
