Non Earthly Participant, image by Irene Koronas
Non Earthly Participant
F A C E S
In objective intimacy the
tablet compiles
brevities
of here I
am casual pinks
cobalt
blues those other
iterations of
testament wet
and lacquered casting
shadows
upon
the lapsing absorbed or
deflected
now
the color separated from
rust
animates around an
activating absence
on
the right half
what is left
parts
into itself dutifully
L I B A T I O N
U n u s u a l e v e n t s c a n n o t f o l d
i n
c a n n o t b
e j u s t i f i e d
t h e p r o b l e m s t o
b e s o l v e d g r o w
i n p r o m i n e n c e f a k e e l e v a t o r s
f a k e l a u n d r y f a k e b o n e s
f a k e l a w n i n f i n i t e l y c u t t i n g
i t s e l f h i s t o
r y a s f o u r
o v e r e x h a u s t e d m o n o l i t h s l e f t
t o o r g a n i z e a n d s h e l f t h e
r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s
o f t h e p a s t
f a c i n g o n
e a n o t h e r
d i s s o l v i n g
a x i o m
s p o u t
s
o f l e a k
D
A L E T Y A D A N D
D A L E T S H I N
Staring at
the same plum
clay scene
and about us
our prisms ways of
bending out
barely ever
smiling
the
viewers chest
two curtains
parted
participation wilts to
become
a
lighter faster traveler b o r r o w i n g
mobility or
temporarily assigned to
it
habitats flash
in r e s p o n s e to
our arrival
rooms and
r o o m s
of cerulean
on repeat
our apprehension released
we get
to work forget
that once there
was a sudden edge
—Meagan Crawford
