The Brooklyn Rail

authentication

her face is off its intrinsic receiver
admitted & persisted on a bundled
origin story test double zombie
token dragged by buggy with
invisible pony

the opposite of onion is potato the
tree’s name is not Paul it is already
implicitly called far exceeding
human provocation to trash each
other harder than a flower box

broadcast virtue transforms or
disappears switch state subjective
antedate accumulating later to
figure out an earlier conscious or
unconscious out of body rabbit

the inattention memory stock
expanding allotments of paradoxes
as once upon a fleeting fiction the
past was present as carmel elaine
qualia draws a blank

if nature can’t make use of a thing
can it exist if nature is unknowable
who is she as singleton how does
she return from such spurious
lodging

authorization

the gaslit zeitgeist
waggle dance orients
usual residence by
where you sleep¹

plural order of latchkey
escorts pack & crack the
efficiency gap

the salamander crimps
his joker card into a
burden of proof waste
basket regenerating
preponderant limbs

we can be reciprocally
bedrock or marsh in
time x height x skill x
heat

is lightning thick or
thunder wet untidy or
confused

matter imbalance rests
on ambiguous terms
you have to move
through space for space
to move through you

1. “It is impossible to attain absolute mathematical equality.” — census.gov on congressional apportionment