The light lasts into everything
Bare ruined wires where late et cetera: too *smirk* simple
a substitution. Once upon, the grey machines we dreamed
(o orange glow!) were happy & made us so, no. Really. Dis-
mantled with a hammer yr VCR yr diskette (non standard)
yr tomb for the unknown camera. What country, friends,
where analogue means proceed by metaphor, (dis)simulation,
illusion; and digital, by hand. An exchange, sweet birds,
subject to defoliation. Twilight of such (or say, second life)
such fire, red standby – nod, wink – an unfading sunset.The Scots form obsolute apparently arose by confusion with absolute
False as etymology: so they say. The machine that dreamed
us was well-made, with hope & kindness, even. Sweet bird
of power: when it flies out, we move through skin, a scribble
heatseeking. It should be over now, older than, old as, safe
as. Back it up &. Remains remain &. We. As species, assimilate,
this gift for saying goodbye. End without world, (new or else),
as wild hope, koan left behind in the ticket machine & now settled
beneath my debit card: VOID VOID VOID VOID. Open hands I
– icchantikas – long not to long for. But, but we bear enmeshment.Another child of silence
Let go. To be/to not: equally problematic. All the violence bird
caged in me in bone in this this strike at. Leaves a. Is similar
to itself in all iterations, similarises, mimetic. Pain’s a settler
beating pathways, cigarette-cherry alleys in the brain after sunset
don’t go there. Down there. That ride I’ve not thumbed long since
w/ all my girl fears that have no expiration. White stucco safe
deposit box in which I store; Nora this and Nora that, birdhands
remote controlled, unchiasmatic. We are incompatible, system
so crude & yet. W/ my quiver of needles, I’ll take that outside-in.Together with you the chaos makes sense
Why why does she call the nights “wild”? & twice. Militant/simile,
insistent, exclamatory. See leaves rattling the polite white settlement
window, no nuits fauves: incommensurate obliterations. Sent letters,
her grammar granular, sublunary, just a little sugar, that biscuit
that will bite the hand. Void in my mouth, ejecta, named meshuga
showing strange faith in speech acts. Not your Rilkean ersatz elseher,
yr surplus unplugged cunt, “redundant female artefact,” system
down, hanging blankly from the socket. Will this unplayed dead
do? Do hang: bare ruined wires a frayed. & so I put my trust in end.*
The first, third and fourth stanza headers are misreadings, or mishearings, of lines from
(respectively): Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby; Jacqueline Rose, Women in Dark Times
and Maja Borg, Future My Love.
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones