NOTES ON THE ISSUE
Why should bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?
- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto loading contours when i imprinted on to my self (and yours) my remote control got stuck in the cloud. . . but, if i am a robot why am i still so sweaty? don't forget your tan lines. . . body! (a body is a thing /that does a dance and turns a page and ten out of eleven times misses badly.) i haven't even peed yet! i say like a body yet i feel so deep that I can't command thy. . . (only-to-a-word deep body?) (holy-enough deep body?) my body is trying to imitate my 2nd mind impress my newer self poor body BOWDOWN body im 2 goth for my liver 2 rad for my eyelashes undone by my own bones. . . at least im content in being an emptiness so covered in hair that im see-through, i say like a body hold on, we're missing something. . . my body loves hates taunts teases me we're missing an every-which-way out. . . who cares i have a bodilessness in my body! a frame (work) of mind so ask it are you smarter than brainyquotes.com? *body breaks itself makes up an it of itself that hurts* that is the real fracture. waking up to: why do my nails have wrists in them? (i do that when i'm nervous, i say like a body) how do i get my stomach to look more like a tortoise shell? can i say my if i just saw it somewhere? i want to be as here as a turtle. New York Fashion Week sweats skin bodies & glitter i mean i want a face that plumps and deflates like a sky-sense can a nakedness touch another and still be so itself? are you ever really past undies? poetry is full of uncomfortable nudists what are you wearing? |
big <3 to Christina Drill who helped us read for this issue. big <3 to Aarati Akkapeddi who did the cover art for this issue. The images are digital blind contour drawings of our contributors (or whoever's body/face came up when we googled their names). |