by Carrie Hunter (20 pp. Saddle-Stitched) $7 ppd.
Vorticells offers crystallized moments of cognition, Hunter’s responses to 15 San Francisco artists show us the mechanism of tranfixion in pulsing detail. Her word-maps incise ghost images right on the reader’s brain, giving us a kind of synesthetic carnival of moments and non-moments, thoughts and non-thoughts that transcends the ekphrastic continuum and forms a harmonious unit from start to finish.
XV. Accordion Accord (Carbon 9)
by Carrie Hunter
by Carrie Hunter
we are guarded and uncharged
valiant whilst charred
seabodies of the cradled hymn
diamond scars and the babies dream
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son as self as shadow as token
not knowing other really is other
cannot be formed, willed, created
we are not shadows of our selves
but selves of our shadows
come fully formed, fully othered
elegant dreams whisper to each other
wishing to be us, to uncurtain themselves
thistle glisten when unshadowed
we glisten when unshadowed
cheap satin drops down slips around
our bodies listen
