Issue 29: Lisa Samuels
Impatiens Bequaertii
for Geraldine
hey ruler with a spear rulerette
spearette, spirit having feminised locutes
posse with the spearies dearies where
spears ziz juicy pairs with pens de fruit
of never-excesses
do you more than zat
the lea doors carolling papier parallels o
grams to the zoots eh now
zest loops insisting in the ground pierrettes
lopers in the commasphere ready on
commingle
do you but volley a
dance-flower rarest pair bespeaks
sich flagrant veridian aerobatics
turning sense to thought!
where onsets
lure impatience rallies to the threshold
lips infract resistance every genera
each swich lissom collymoddle stem
rejoice! ions ever betwixt do
pennate the nonce head ur-beseeching
ready for suss
do but swish stems
flower spirit cut so dear, wind-turn,
quince us out to spen
[Lisa Samuels works with experimental writing, multi-modal art, and relational theory in transnational life. Lisa's recent books are The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (Chax 2019) and Breach (Boiler House 2021), her novel Tender Girl just appeared in Serbian as Mekana Devojka (Partizanska 2022, translator Milan Pupezin), Shearsman will publish Lisa's new poetry book, Livestream, in 2023, and punctum books will be publishing her book of essays, Imagining what we don't know: creative theory and critical bodies, also in 2023.]
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