& Memphis is out in Full Fang! Skeletons skip down our pitted streets. Whole families with matching hobo stipple roam tragicomically through the sprawling candy deserts: polka-dot bandanas on sticks, flapping Chaplinesque shoes.
Unclaimed pumpkins pile high behind razor wire. The air's thick with caw & trouble. Our...
We sat in the narrow plaza filled with metal tables by the construction site. It was warm, around 5 pm, one of those evenings after a long winter where the city seemed to be anxiously flowering. Several acquaintances rode by on bicycles. There was a line...
It was the prophets and the seers, they were the ones who anointed my city holy—Kingston of dust and stone, Kingston haunted by the ghosts loitering in the pens, the enslaved...
dort, wo die stadt versickert, beim bahndamm, jenseits der in ihrer pracht erstarrten, riesigen zikade des umspannwerkes, siehst du sie: gebraucht, getürmt, ein ganzes feld, gezackt oder gewellt die maserung in jedem bauch
und dunkler als sämtliche rembrandts zusammen: gummiakropolis, heiligtum des banalen—im herbst berennt es der sturm, erduldet...
where the city starts to come undone, at the railroad embankment, beyond the staunch colossal cicada of the substation in its splendor, you start to notice: used up, towering, a field of them, worn or rippled texture in each paunch
Crip (noun): slang for a disabled person/the whole of the disabled community/ a school of thought Example: “I’m on crip time” Meaning: Time bends differently when the universe that is my body dictates it