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| artwork by Elicia Edijanto |
"...I chaos like a motherfucker. Ain’t no one can
chart me. All the other planets, they think
I’m annoying. They think I’m an escaped
moon, running free...
Fuck your order. Fuck your time. I realigned the cosmos.
I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel. Now all your kids
in the classrooms, they confused. All their clocks:
wrong. They don’t even know what the fuck to do.
They gotta memorize new songs and shit. And the other
planets, I fucked their orbits. I shook the sky. Chaos like
a motherfucker."
"They have EKG’d her cold-blooded heartbeat, MRI’d
and scanned, her silhouette glowing with radiation.
Surgeons in white deftly wield gleaming scalpels.
They have stitched her gills shut, and scraped the
barnacles from her shoulder blades. Round, puckered
scars remain, in the spot where earlier that morning,
an angel had her wings removed. "
"you reached into my memory by placing a finger
in my ear. I placed a hand
in my ear. I placed a hand
in your mouth to catch the bird
and we smashed it
--- There Is a Bird in My Mouth by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
"I cannot say that I understand the valley
understand the petal-like, windborne unfolding of her confession
full moon night in the underbrush, ladybugs flutter
like the grains of stars falling into the valley’s wet creases
someone says: the full moon can trigger a kind of savage snow...--- The Full Moon Night by Ya Shi trans. by Nick Admussen
"You move through me like rain heard
from another country.
Yes, you have a country.
Someday, they will find it
while searching for lost ships . . . "
--- To My Father / To My Unborn Son by Ocean Vuong
"Our tongues not content
inside our bodies, we longed to possess
even the other, possess them so long
as their suffering was not ours, and when they began
to shed their names by themselves, we invented
new ones; when they began to hurt us we broke them
down into more names"
--- As Adam by Mikael de Lara Co
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