spiritual journey

 

Will Smith still hasn’t personally apologized to Chris Rock for Oscars slap   Hollywood insiders are rolling their eyes as Smith went on a "spiritual journey" to do yoga and meditate, yet he still hasn't even reached out to Rock.

No People in It Launch Audio in a New Window BY EMILY SKILLINGS

 No People in It 

BY EMILY SKILLINGS

                        for JA

 

I flutter in order

to enter

the phrase’s silver.

 

Jackdaws have launched nearby

this time, silk green and ripped,

the movement a kind of chafing thinking.

 

Oh he’s marking

terrain right there—

right there with his

 

unmade song. The shadow kids

whip fronds, froth air up

into heat, pure and simple

 

“violence of the eye.” Wild iris

ink, wet in the margin’s stage.

Well, hadn’t this testament begun

 

to carry its chime in stripes?

That’s when I knew he was going away

from me, towards the sound.

 

Like the ring on the table

it can’t be decentered.

Rim around the recent.

 

Ashes, ashes,

A bright tangled seeming.

Girls Online BY EMILY SKILLINGS

 Girls Online

BY EMILY SKILLINGS

The first line is a row of girls,

twenty-five of them, almost

a painting, shoulders overlapping,

angled slightly toward you.

One says: I’m myself here.

The others shudder and laugh

through the ribbon core that strings

them. They make a tone tighter

by drumming on their thighs and

opening their mouths. The girls

are cells. The girls are a fence,

a fibrous network. One by one

they describe their grievances.

Large hot malfunctioning

machines lie obediently at their sides.

Their shirts are various shades

of ease in the surrounding air,

which is littered with small cuts.

One will choose you, press you

into the ground. You may never

recover. The second-to-last line

has a fold in it. The last line is

the steady pour of their names.

Gayniggers from Outer Space (1992)

 

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