“A Lived Example” by Clare Kelly
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dumbstruck in the bardo
enumerated lessons
absent of all touch
press now
dumplings with a limestone tourniquet
loman through the bellows
sunshade on the mountain
unincumbent mistles
atop a stringing tire wire turning
loosened window lace
neon icicle attack
display strips of famous layers
insignia surface, dull retreat
loosened April of my levers
micron surface touch
display the motive
implied in the maple stretch of trees
accosted
I bend sideward
delinquent tremors
lemon anchors slant
teal dependents understand
my tremored lineage
delight Typhereus
in apparition
an apparated lineage
de-lined anterior
to a fault
subsequently lineward to an Indigenous anterior exemplar
static microphone beat cholera down
dependent on an absolute excursion of no-one reading the interior
lip-tied by deliverables
ask a weave away
by jurisdiction alone
slant the turns of diametrics
kindness bequeathed these whelms
muscles stripped of damper
with peppered sidewalks involuntare
recomposed + determined to
delete absence; atrophy delete
new distance through the bellows
light determined black
just
to undermine a lived example
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Clare Kelly is the founding editor of Hesse Press, based in Los Angeles. She is the author of Future Ruins We Can Visit Now (2014) and the forthcoming The Number Thirty-Six on Fire.
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