Poem
By Terrance Hayes
Handcuffed in daylight walking through air
today the subject imagined a near future
where other subjects project a cloud
of information overhead. Aptly branded
“the halo” this new technology,
a wireless implanted cranial device, will
project the business (messages, expressions,
longings, paths & implicit pathologies)
of the customers along…
today the subject imagined a near future
where other subjects project a cloud
of information overhead. Aptly branded
“the halo” this new technology,
a wireless implanted cranial device, will
project the business (messages, expressions,
longings, paths & implicit pathologies)
of the customers along…
Poem
By Terrance Hayes
You are pursuing a feeling like the dust
In the voice of Bob Kaufman plus the mud
Of the most fertile…
In the voice of Bob Kaufman plus the mud
Of the most fertile…
Poem
By Terrance Hayes
The country with the face of its mother
tattooed across its chest searched
for connection like the coiler…
tattooed across its chest searched
for connection like the coiler…
Poem
By Lindsay Turner
Monday and it starts out mobile
Monday you can picture “health”
the picture is a stucco villa
shining…
Monday you can picture “health”
the picture is a stucco villa
shining…
Poem
By Terrance Hayes
Zora Neal Hurston spent time
in the low country
interviewing & filming
kids on corners & folk at work,
but she actually took the stage
when she went to church.
Around town she heard
of ancestors who escaped
into the swamps living for decades
on raccoon, snakeroot & turtle soup,
all of which Zora recorded,
but in church she sang a song
about…
in the low country
interviewing & filming
kids on corners & folk at work,
but she actually took the stage
when she went to church.
Around town she heard
of ancestors who escaped
into the swamps living for decades
on raccoon, snakeroot & turtle soup,
all of which Zora recorded,
but in church she sang a song
about…
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