Clump Spirit

My father loved his practical cadillac most at eleven every night for centuries with unwavering hope of surviving life’s fad diet brushed his teeth and exploded maybe with ambiguity maybe tala madani’s cumshot number one shaped like christ’s apostles or john lurie is gunna make it though this year of joy divorced from our investors dipped in gold jungles say a girl’s bug command is her smithy gone father says shadow the orange tree longing o devoted petroleum molecules circulate in the olfactory longing whine of leaf blowers drink him too so we believe we were young and safe and you must say great grandpa was a notorious professor at the bolognese school of this is how people speak to small children in the city of underground fighters it felt terrible when i burrowed back to life to live among the maglev of my parents brandishing their divorced saints begging light of sunken eyes disturbing the air from what i thought was pleasure was solitude was the ability to retrofit hope into the chassis of metaphor you’re stone and river i’m computer weed and the glitched up church pouring a yard of concrete through great grandpa’s white hot screen door that’s what it was a viral devotion to he who has too many preferences snoop dogg ha dichiarato di aver smesso di fumare but what about you apologetically broke my lungs filling with immaterial light which devours real light toothsome from the unknowable massacres rolling katamari like over the horizon.

‘Antiquity Calling’ by Elaine Equi

Looking at Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids, I learn that he
liked shoes and armpit crotch-shots of men and women,
both shaved and un’—all giving a good whiff to the camera.
But best of all are his pictures of ordinary phones
which convey a palpable sense of expectancy as if
at any moment, one of the fabulous, laconic nude men
strewn about might call. One could pick up the receiver
and hear the garbled sound of ancient Greek and Roman
voices reveling in the background. But even when silent,
the dingy phone is a sex organ—cock asleep in its cradle.


Equi, Elaine. “Antiquity Calling.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine, November 2008, www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/51805/antiquity-calling. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.

Callejón de Nubes

No thinking about the holes in teeth confused in cloud alley but elegant not selling elegance but true put the phone down elegance you ballet of proper verb forms then say ballet until her enjambment snaps off in her right hand the regional manager says put identity up there on the shelf beside the open box returns she’s talking about mycelium now or was a violent idiot a little tape holding it all together don’t take the comma deep underground take the coma of metaphor hey you guys look like you respect ska and city police neat and disorderly no one trying to reproduce scan or distribute any printed or electronic form of outre elder smoke returns through heavy mirrored interior of toilet paper tube violent design wins every time.