Necrology: the Dogs
Our dogs don’t die; like dissidents, they disappear. Lobo was returned while I was at school, to a log-and-shingle house in the woods. He howled too much for the city, I was told, later. Pepper was stolen—by dog fighters, Tom mutters as though he knows it to be true. Her jaw was wide and she [...]
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Welcome to Fauna
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About Grief
ethnographies from the road
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Aura Girl
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The Arrival of Metal Changes Everything
The stranger with his flat axe of copper comes to trade in the village where his axe-shine trumps flint, stone, bone, antler. Now, what fool wants to be buried with ivory beads and clay pots? No more communal burials with women crying over barrows. Each man to his own grave, and as many grave goods [...]
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Statistics
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Self-Portrait as Boyhood Erection
And this is how you wear a sock over your head: stretch & cotton-sweat, lips coy as petals, whetted then struck by a barbarous tugging— smell of grass, of cinnamon, of aftershave still on scuttling hand. I live in denim musk, a clam unshelled and flowering in classroom, lockerroom, bathroom stall— I live to enthrall […]
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TINT
Artist’s statement TINT TINT is the product of my constant inquiry into legacy - the problems posed by people or knowledge that lingers in the historical record. I create texts which are manipulated through the use of modern technology such as language algorithms or graphics-editing programs questioning aged or archaic knowledge as both information and [...]
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Degrees of Invasiveness
An invasive plant has the ability to thrive and spread aggressively outside its natural range. -- “What is an Invasive Plant?," The United States National Arboretum My convent school in Manila was founded more than seventy years ago by a French-Canadian nun who, like Moses, Joan of Arc, or many schizophrenics, had been given a [...]
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Sound Ethnography
Artist’s statement Ethnography: Staten Island Ferry I spent a long afternoon shuttling back and forth on the ferry between Manhattan and Staten Island and constructed this piece out of found recordings, inspired by the—oftentimes profoundly banal—commute, which assumes a radically different energy only when the ferry passes handsome Lady Liberty. As an “ethnography,” an ostensibly [...]
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2 poems
Winter Of (And I Took the Chemise Off) And I said to him You are such an atomist and I took the chemise off the canal had a scrim of green the kestrel between my shoulder blades kept worrying its nest worrying and worrying till I grew bored with it I said My acedia will [...]
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2 poems
Primate Problems In this game, the Princess is supposed to save Mario. In this one, the Gorilla has a thing for guys with mustaches. Nobody’s happy. How it works is things don’t work out, but the game keeps on going. A sequence of binary code sputters in the back of each skull like the rusty [...]
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