The interior love poem
the deeper levels of the selfdates when the abandonment
of certain principles occurredThe role of courtesy—how to enter
a forest, how to touch
a master’s feet before lesson or performanceThe art of the drum. The art of eye-painting.
How to cut an arrow. Gestures between lovers.
The pattern of teeth marks on skin
drawn by a monk from memoryThe limits of betrayal. The five ways
a lover could mock an ex-loverThe skill in tentative messages
which included yes and no
but never the direct maybeNine finger and eye gestures
to signal key emotionsThe small boats of solitude
Lyrics that rose
from love
back into airnaked with guile
and praiseOur works and days
We knew how monsoons
(south-west, north-east)
would govern behaviourand when to discover
the knowledge of the deadhidden in clouds
in rivers, in unbroken rockAll this was burnt
or traded for power and wealth
from the eight compass points of vengeancefrom the two levels of envy
Granta 167: Extraction Online
You Are the Product
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
You Are the Product
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
You Are the Product
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
You Are the Product
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
Two Poems
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
