Ashley Haywood



Nicole Rain Sellers Reviews Ashley Haywood and Brett Cross

Clustering is a technique for mind-mapping the parts of any whole. Organisms cluster into ecologies, people cluster into communities, and poems cluster into collections. In Polyp and Islands, clusters of cells, beings, and places form and dissolve. Both books explore the flux between separateness and wholeness in nature, each word and line branching into vaster topographies. The poems arrange in organic patterns, then undermine their own classification by splitting, mixing, and rejoining themselves in new arrangements.

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Complex Cells

after Wendy Wheeler after Lynn Margulis After Earth’s form- loose Hadean days (perfuse with time- fullness) death turns out to be open- mouthed, a dwelling- made emptiness for one-and-other— different kinds of undoing in failed acts of eating for form— …

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Salt Lake

Pulse: peal of bone— I open my mouth to empty out this sphere. Soundless-sound hangs its presence. Pale sky englobes me— Am I gravity- free? I take a step inside. Time rushes through me. A doorway shuts—walls, walls—a gypsum tomb! …

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