Edition none of 80 years found foot age with what tilled space 
under screen fish 4 ward away the tendon is being is wrapped 
around the serif has a compound fracture out from far

under oh pine opine mine risks of ornament 
king kind golem appear olympian flare bears burnt 2 back 
bourbon gray and the road is still groveling toward 

a fierce and empty nothing for every sequence there is a pale
and edible codex there are darker papillae the woods 
rising 2 meet a fleshed cranium 2 test its small 

growth in the stenciled socket give it rise 2 chorus leopard 
frogs in red moon. When we learn the frosted gravity when 
it beats back breast beats back someone eternal like Walter 

Benjamin to an audience so frightened with light with 
columns finned light pillars encasing the concrete womb of some
nearly 1 million people at Nuremburg with sightlines for fathers 

or blast shadow in what way do we ask then for something
as grainy and dislodged as thinking to do the work 
wresting spooled luggage which are now bodies which

then become Frenchmen in the 1970s
thinking Japan or Americans voting for Nixon. 
Fowl the bird the bleak bloody unkindness of

ravens eagles leading 2 registers in sexy slave terms the remaster 
bedroom the girding motility that defines perspective the 
1st class the unnaturalness airplanes economy polaroid the fact 

that Freud was right about many things; the white 
mind is a dark continent; there is no adhesive in 
the world stronger than resentment: they are conclusions

worlding a great fourfold sadness the many mass tombs 
a place with such a grand frontier where the bodies the men in
dark mines become irrecoverable the opening filled in 

with mud. To mention fear. A puppy barking wildly. 
The terrible body trembling after orgasm. 
The eyes of a corpse, all that memory backlogged onto the cornea.

And flipping turning pondering the one-
dimensions and erotic operatives of labor in Herbert 
Marcuse or the totality of late capital empire in Frederic 

Jameson gets you arrested and persecuted 2 the fullest
extent of a law that keeps changing 2 circumscribe 
the conditions of freedom when the wind itself is

so catastrophic branches bend comically to a 
peace so jagged it is restless. The trees themselves 
are inebriated and noxious so the streets bow

with a grand holiness with a holy sweltering 
a great ball lightning a great ballooning fumes 
gaseous personalities on the warhead, in what world does exchange

happen this way. 2 mention again, fear. When said 
experts measure megatonnage in Hiroshima(s) to say in 1 month
Israel has dropped the equivalent of 2 

on unchosen peoples what burdens are taken down 
to the river then when it flows with the coagulated 
remnants dreams limbs dreaming children dreaming 

what then does chanting become the streets some small
southern American town on fire red streaks against blue sky 
a colorless rage a blind rage a glistening matter of charred bodies.

When does signaling in a poem in a room become 
so reductive so ineffective at the site injury the social 
injury the infernal reality hacked up from cell phones from

the distant representations of things hacked up through
planar glass through even farther signals flitting nervously 
from even farther away rushing from just above 

a ground desperately rushing like waters 
rushing back down to an iris seeing 
everything recording everything feeling


Lucy Liyou is a music artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work has earned acclaim from Pitchfork, Paste, The Guardian, Wire Magazine, among others, and received notable airplay on NTS Radio, KEXP, NPR, and Sonos Radio's Radio Hour with Thom Yorke. She is currently based in the Bay Area.

Rodney Dailey II is a poet from Boston, Massachusetts. You can find his work in Gully Magazine, Elderly Magazine, and Rampage Party Press among others. He’s currently based in the Bay Area.