You are here. \\| /| I am here with you.
By Anna Jacobson, Vacant Dragon à la Subverted Lips
Published 17 February 2024
the yoga mat is missing from its rolled-up place
what that entails, and what comes after
it returns unchanged
I travel inside the sound of the missing
yoga mat, lost
in another dimension and a sound
that no longer exists. I
am nothing =
username forgotten password reset password email username (not the email) new password
cookies won’t let me download my own document
print the form to sign the form
scan the form and send the form
you may find yourself in the waiting room but they will let you in soon
it took me one and a half months to feel
comfortable sitting in this ‘waiting chair’. before,
I would stand, shift from foot
to foot
I can’t see the captions but poem is palm
Seismosis, size moses
a gap
where the air conditioning feels
colder if I press my body against
the poem-space, seismosis-sized.
my palm is a blurb.
Here is a start for the blurb:
👏
Let me know if it’s on the right track.
post-work hypnotherapy
Copying 1 item from Day to Day
post-sounds TMS: lifts regurgitate
patients and doctors. I am on the ground
floor, the lift’s innards moving skyward
so high the elevator remixes
the passport is in airplane mode
without recognising the century
or the zapping clack of the magnet
on my head. the magnetic fields tried
to turn on the underactive circuits – my depression
did not get better
after we are ambushed by a cyclist
our claw hands carry the tension home
Footnote: this poem was created using the Between-the-action constraint as the starting point. The title makes reference to Lynn Sachs’ film A Month of Single Frames (2019). The line ‘what that entails, and what comes after’ is from Raymond Carver’s poem Radio Waves (1984). The line ‘without recognizing the century’ is from Charles Simic’s poem Shadow Publishing Company (1995).