Jacob Kahn
As I Lay Here Drying
As I Lay Here Drying
Constant dream
in constant cool chamber
I,
mother to an angel
same desires same attachments
as a carton of eggs is atop
the greens and milks
as smashed garlic is
not materially changing
between thoughts but
changed by them
what sites
continue to be crawled?
aren’t
meal kits just
renting someone else’s fridge
for a minute?
Arvo wants
air in the spare
names and prepositions
as I lay here drying
my blue hat turning
green, like an ice cap
in the sea everything
in constant cool chamber
I,
mother to an angel
same desires same attachments
as a carton of eggs is atop
the greens and milks
as smashed garlic is
not materially changing
between thoughts but
changed by them
what sites
continue to be crawled?
aren’t
meal kits just
renting someone else’s fridge
for a minute?
Arvo wants
air in the spare
names and prepositions
as I lay here drying
my blue hat turning
green, like an ice cap
in the sea everything
on this page belongs
to the taxpayers of
Berkeley, California
to the taxpayers of
Berkeley, California
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Another one of those
meat ads, calculating
as a Rembrandt. Taking
Airbus Beluga.
Curriculum sales.
Math on film.
What does the
white tree say
about us fleet
debtors of the
wood? Proximity
and interruption,
a principal tension.
“A poem is anything
you write with words,”
I say on a mic
to a crowd. And this
is my company’s
great intervention.
The prescience of this
science has been making
us money for years.
meat ads, calculating
as a Rembrandt. Taking
Airbus Beluga.
Curriculum sales.
Math on film.
What does the
white tree say
about us fleet
debtors of the
wood? Proximity
and interruption,
a principal tension.
“A poem is anything
you write with words,”
I say on a mic
to a crowd. And this
is my company’s
great intervention.
The prescience of this
science has been making
us money for years.
Jacob Kahn is a poet, editor, and curator living on the territory of Huichin, within the homeland of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people. He is the author, most recently, of Mine Eclogue (Roof Books, 2022) and cofounder, along with Sophia Dahlin, of Eyelet Press. He works as a librarian at Berkeley Public Library.