SHIN YU PAI
Two Poems
it would be easier
to travel outside the lines
it would be easier
to travel outside the lines
An “other”-oriented text, Breath on a Coal, with its promiscuous curiosities, its investments in recovering our own animality, articulates the disorders of our human subjectivities.
One place, or two, to start: beauty and use.
From the blood of these knuckles
a red tree grows.
She shouldn’t have written
A correction note to a mysterious entity:
With what’s left of our unremarkable lives
we walk in what’s left of the world’s coastal prairie.
Heather Christle, Ru Freeman, MĂłnica Gomery, Christian Gullette, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, K. Iver, Robert Wood Lynn, Rooja Mohassessy, Susan Nguyen, Laura Read, J. C. Talamantez, Rodrigo Toscano, & more
First and last, we grapple a galaxy
Let us push out this ship’s dark
perfection of yew.