This poem comes after Jacques Derrida’s essay L’Animal que donc je suis (Paris: Éditions Galilée, 2006), while “the tracker’s marginalia” is imagined and glossed from The Oxyrhynchus papyri by Bernard Pyne Grenfell & Arthur Surridge Hunt (London Egypt Exploration Society, 1898), a lengthy exegesis of, among other texts, a fragment of Sophocles’s play Ichneutae (The Trackers). Read more →
Genre: Poetry
Chaiwala
I kiss my lover the same way I make
a cup of tea: pour water and milk into a saucepan
Dissemination
The ocean has a purpose.
Saying The past is the past is useless. Read more →
Gestational Stage
Did you believe me like you believe the Discovery
Channel when I said a woman like a seal comes
to ground only
to breed and nurse
like Doris Lessing Read more →
Definition of a Floridian
Florida is where we stretch America’s southern hand
into the ocean with no southern accent in our mouths.Read more →
Stone
The children are scattered hens
in the November playground,
pecking at the remnants of play.Read more →