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please tell me this will not last forever

chapel street shifts pitch deep winter;
its edges, sharper its scents brighter, brittle
like peppermint or bone

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the middle ground

for caroline monnet

uncertain violence traverses an
ancient route, brutalities hidden while we
are taught the wisdom of human
commerce and capitalism.

we are cogs, a whole
made of parts
standing in shadows
of inference abstraction.

bound by spaces, where spheres move
a womb into a double
moon sphering a path that winds itself
around and across our tombs.

creatures of dada,
the Atlantic Ocean is raw
the Atlantic Ocean is heavy
the Atlantic Ocean is a wild passage
between three territories.

children of data,
the Atlantic Ocean is raw
the Atlantic Ocean is heavy
the Atlantic Ocean is a wild passage
full of dead bodies.

This poem first appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic Issue No. 14.
It was republished in ECR's second chapbook, snap, pop, performance, now available via Gap Riot Press.

"the middle ground" is written in a poetic style reminiscent of Shazia Hafiz Ramji's port of being (Invisible Publishing, 2018). It is part of a working collection of ekphrasis, and is inspired by the work of Anishinaabe/French contemporary multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet.

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