L. Pannor

You can learn to read the quality 
and direction of the wind based on 
the color and texture of the water

hi! I kind of have to follow up about your fish in the piano
why?
lol no good reason really— I just saw this and though
woah what if real
“John Cage Water Walk”

is it about fish
not exactly about fish but a mussel and a frozen lake make
appearances

wdy think of these fish
i like them!
do u know the artist?
yes they’re the one who did my last baby piece
I like the fish very much
I want a lot from them but am broke

I’m presently trying + failing to find the darling concrete
fish poem you showed me
if you have a moment to dig it up again

Also ,, I’ve meant to mention that since our call a brain
worm has been tunneling through fish related religious
referents & collating them if that is still of interest

I think I needed another personality to subsume mine
before because I felt .. well
this is like, my whole project right now, but I felt like a
nasty masochistic fish who just wanted to be hooked and
killed
now I’m a man and also a top
Also lol at the fish, but also yeaaaaah I really see that for

you
Give a man a fish... uh, no wait.... Give a fish a man to
cook and he eats for a day. teach a fish how to be a man
and he uhh.... Doesn’t get hooked and eaten
Yeah that’s what I always say
That’s the saying, yk

exactly
men taught me how to speak and so I became a man who
eats fish instead of is fish .... right

mm how was it? did you learn anything new abt cis
straight indie men
[Image of a projected screen, portrait of Jesus on the right
half and script on the left with a heading that reads “the
original male lesbian” and two bullets below, “- carpenter
(SML)” and “- core issue: tortured “]
^learned this about Jesus
I’ve been saying this
Haha speaking of ,, the coin in the fish mouth miracle is
the only one that is stated but not realized/seen in action (
if of interest )

I honestly haven’t made something polished that I like
since the start of the semester, so just my fortune fish
piece

Mm unsure if I’ve seen that one but do adore my little
fortune fish

cat wine fish pillow at the chinese restaurant ln
Pic from a while back, but showed the cats who now

demand a fish pillow

here’s some rice / salad / fish ideas if you wanted to do
that again?

you can’t have sex w the fish
sounds like a solid try tho
that’s your thing my relationship w the fish is very
ambiguous

I realized today that the fish are just a section
also learned to say fish

bright side is I do things like finding out there was an
icon named Marie Fish who has an entire catalog of fish
sounds (housed at University of RI) that she recorded in
the 1920s with a hydrophone
need an ambient fish sounds album
u gotta make it

lol what comes to mind are a paper from a journal called
bioacoustics, on choruses of song that fish sing at dawn
and dusk

Okay ,, my brain is snoozing me & my idealism of
responding this eve to your wondrous fish song intel &
the effects of poetry might need to wait to the other side
of sleep

I didn’t know fish made noises ( which seems obvious
now ) and noises with such synchronicity ,, incredibility
ritualistic ,, quasi - religious ( not to -morphize them )

L. Pannor lives, writes, and often galavants about in Providence, RI. Their work has been published by the Academy of American Poets and Belladonna* Collaborative, among others. They're grateful to the friends and fishes sampled in this piece: DB, RR, JF, NS, BB, & SK. <3