Word count: 99
Paragraphs: 12
restless
desk
stalks
interior
jumps
barrier
old aisle
st marks
what is
vito’s
episteme?
epic
piss
stream
meme
& he didn’t do
it, poetry
he did the silver rod
the papacy downfallen
but all else risen
he did mojo magic
quick wit’s
alien bite
& revolution
turning a million ways
what did I learn
transmit
all vibrancy
a body
can take
holy, holy. holy
4.28.17
Anne Waldman is the author most recently of Mesopotopia (Penguin 2025) and Archivist Scissors, (Staircase Books, 2025). Her album Astral Omens with Devin Brahja Waldman and Georgia Wartel Collins is out from Earliest Morning, 2025. Waldman is a founder and Artistic Director of the Jack Kerouac School and its Summer Writing Program (June 8–27). The summer 2026 theme is Metabolic Thrum. Outrider, the film of and about Anne Waldman by Alystyre Julian is traveling the world. Website: annewaldman.org