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Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation*
“Two dangers never cease threatening the world: order and disorder.” Lyn Hejinian
Imagine a head turning to the left. Molecules scramble into an arrangement before an eye can detect the absence of differentiation.
“Everything’s in the poems” and though that’s absolute, it isn’t because there is so much said about them not in poems. Or poem form. Or what says it is a poem or someone else says it is a poem even when it does not look like this:
*Excerpt,
Second printing Spring 2008. BookThug
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NEW! "Spell/ing ( ) Bound"
in collaboration with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi
ellectrique press
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Burned earth, the fire can travel through dry underground roots and spring up hundreds of feet from its source. Garden beseeched. Prayer gods kneeling over the victims. Evisceration of locals. The perimeter is secured by the usual means, though it is evident the event is so unusual. The ringing in the ears fades for some, in others, remains. What they hear is projection of what they have heard with constancy to date. This may be solely the function of their aural mechanisms; likely it is the mind registering its vote in the process. A collaborator. These survivors will re-experience the screaming at night. Florence will hear casino bells. Henry, the washing machine.
saved
First appeared in Tarpaulin Sky Issue #13/Print Issue #1, Fall/Winter 2007
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Videopoems at The Continental Review
Poem poems at EOAGH
Ecopoetic postcard at HOW2
Review at Tarpaulin Sky
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