Reception
‘No market left
emerging.’
Capital’s interior monologue
lines the jet way
at Kennedy
*
By adjusting their orbits slightly,
electrons can reach out
and conjure
the tug
of more than one
nucleus.
*
One man plays
‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’
and ‘Hernando’s Hideaway’
on an accordion
in Spain.
*
On a silent
American Airlines screen
somewhere over the Atlantic
a woman cartwheels
towards Marriott
reception
above the words,
‘Stay amazing!’
Openings
1
Because children suspect that objects conceal their powers and intentions,
animators make an alarm clock run, screaming, in circles.
2
Because as I lie facing the wall the bones of my eye socket hurt, I see myself
as an ancient skeleton recently unearthed. Then I appear in a re-enactment
of the moments before my death, a clear eyed young woman peering
from the mouth of a cave
into what I take to be
an open future.
Photograph © Riley Elias
