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  • 11
  • VIDEO
  • TRISTA HURLEY-WAXALI
  • AE REIFF
  • Jonathan Fischer
  • JOSH PRYER
  • NEIL ELLMAN
  • HENRY CRAWFORD
  • Erric Emerson
  • Thomas Piekarski
  • Arlyn Labelle
  • Trevor Root
  • ROBERT Eversmann
  • Rus Khomutoff
  • M. A. Istvan Jr.
  • Fin Sorrel
EDITOR FIN SORREL    Journeysintospace (at) gmail (dot) com

erric Emerson

T h e        L oo k e r

S e e s        s o m e t h I n g s
s o m e w h a t         a c c u r a t e l y
s o m e        o f t h e        t I m e.


H I s        e y e s  c a m e r a – s h u t t e r
b l I n k s                                                                
I n t o        c u r s o r y      f r a m e.

T h e y        s I d e – g l a n c e        a t w a r n I n g s
b e t w e e n        s e e – n o – e v I l        f I n g e r s.
T h e y        s t a r e  a t n u d e        s t a t u e s,
a t        c r a c k e d        n I p p l e s, a n d        w e a t h e r e d,
s h r u n k e n        p e n I s e s o f        a n c I e n t p o l y m a t h s,
k n o w I n g        t h e w o r l d.


T h e        f I x e d    g a z e o n        n e o n y e l l o w
s t r o b e s        f l a r I n g a b o v e        s t r e e t
c o u r t e s a n s        a n d t h e I r   m a n y a r t s.
A n        u p – a n d   – d o w n  o n s o m e
b o d I l y        p o r t r a y a l      o f t h e f u t u r e – s h e.                
E p h e m e r a l        v I e w s o f   h I g h l I g h t
t h r o u g h        s q u I n t I n g    c y a n I r I s.
A        s u r r e a l I t y        of h I m – I s m s;                       
b a r e – b r e a s t        m e r m a I d s a n d       a r I a s I r e n s,
d I s t a n t        b u t I n   s I g h t.

A        n e w    l o o k  a b o u t  h I s
f a c e        a s o n e        a p p r o a c h e s,
b l I n k I n g:
a m        I s e e I n g        t h I s










Guesswork

I believe firmly in:
what will be words
of Post- H. Sapiens,
whatever replaces
telescopes,

bookaholics  
perusing under

foregone trees.

Less so, but still:
in figures withheld by corner

-eye, there, gone; certain of it.
That some clowns step

backwards into forests
with shushed index finger.
How tarot-seers claim us bird,
then we feel and know
this sudden beak.



With weak inkling:
in an Ensō stroked over,

oft over, by the towering
brush making many-handed
flecks. Instruments these,
and utensils made shrines
for curated, cannoned lists.

If nothing else:
in the flowered Calyx of Held  
where all things at one moment
inter-are, inter-be, then expand utterly
to the far reaches of mind, beyond, the next.








Dear Self

unlit room, glasses frame with left
lens popped out, swig of 1/10th the bottle,
that’s that, hard-on for a married,
such want, such yester-decade,
library of pipe dream blueprint,
backpack with limbs and bookends
of better men, parrot of therapist says,
documentary of fell off, ink smear
of a half-filled moleskin, scribblings
of a once upon, a tick sheet of trying,
glassed gaze at a hurt, vintage veined
with an upped dose, egg-shells of doctor
talk, you, upturns & downswings, you,
each come around the chances of scratch
-off, utterer of good-things-do, bent knee
with crossed fingers, this burnt throat,
bloated lies & a little fib, I say I said
I didn’t and don’t, blackout text exes
and lets white-out weeks at a stretch,
ever the cat flash eyed and vanished,
broke-wing bird squawk at a feeder,
unfixed dog foaming at mouth,
what teeth, what wary, alert gums,
what time is it, the moxie of fuck clocks,
blank on the in-between of safe space and help,
the village stoning of call me, please
OR
or.
Should I just skip to the good parts?


Sincerely,

Yours Truly

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  • 11
  • VIDEO
  • TRISTA HURLEY-WAXALI
  • AE REIFF
  • Jonathan Fischer
  • JOSH PRYER
  • NEIL ELLMAN
  • HENRY CRAWFORD
  • Erric Emerson
  • Thomas Piekarski
  • Arlyn Labelle
  • Trevor Root
  • ROBERT Eversmann
  • Rus Khomutoff
  • M. A. Istvan Jr.
  • Fin Sorrel