Visitation

in the dream where I don't know she is dead, she comes to me and I talk to her about none of the things I want to
Kelly Hoffer
from the book Undershore / Lightscatter Press

Poets on poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form.

Chloe Garcia Roberts on "Temporal Saturation"
Photo: Chloe Garcia Roberts
Hussein Barghouthi (translated from the Arabic by Suneela Mubayi)
Peace be upon a stone encircled by flowers That girls’ eyes reach out to embrace
Marie-Claire Bancquart (translated from the French by Claire Eder & Marie Moulin-Salles)
the very subtle flower of your centuries of intelligence: the bloody man and his screams under concrete
Mai Der Vang
Sacred traveler in the middle of transcendence not a unicorn but a saola not apparition but actual.
Chloe Garcia Roberts
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.
Terri Witek
Outside, mowers===another plan to be happy.

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