Temporal Saturation

The measurement of temporal saturation then can be used to quantify both the abscesses and the vividities, these gestures floating in great swathes of meaningless automation.
Chloe Garcia Roberts
from the book Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology / co•im•press

Siddhartha Menon on Epigraphs and “Captivity”
Photo: Siddhartha Menon
Terri Witek
Outside, mowers===another plan to be happy.
Mónica de la Torre
And I'd be picturing, those last days, rhizomes and spores.
Bob Hicok
....whatever this is, please let it be enough for me,
Essex Hemphill
It is not a singing circle of protest, nor an embrace of mourning
Nasser Rabah (translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, & Khaled al-Hilli)
The war left me only those who died to call friends. I bless night and light a votive candle so they pass through me in a dream, like a scalpel or a cough, it left me no heart

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