from “Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts”
If I grew out of your (winter,
thought, purse, chest cavity)
would I, I would be plant-wise
wiser for the spiny-edge & milk
veins, this wonder’s so ancient
so Mesopotamian, look at Miriam
who covers her mouth when she
laughs, look at Miriam who wears
her dress like a casket
م
You have to use the telepathy machine: feelings as artifacts
You have to use a channel (O) for an ancestor to pass through
Yawn her up from the white space, in alphanumeric names
their cambered arabic numerals, a semitic pneumatic, a numen:
telepathy, yelling over the sea / machines, their quarrel, quarrel
م
/tɛləpæθi/: farflung feeling
م
emerge (trans., imp.): emerge the _________ out of the _________
information miracle sleep
sound burning car throat
child music possibility
م
Hippocampus controls short & long memory, named horse +
sea-monster or seahorse for its shape, though the man who
described the anatomy first called it a silkworm, then changed
his mind. The silkworm eats of the mulberry leaves. From
holes in its jaws the silkworm excretes thread in circular
movements, whirl-a-world, self-cocooning. In this video, the
brain lights up where a new memory forms.
م
Telepathy Machine: May lamb gone
of its soft guts, its life-force charged
into red communication:
—you have to use your farthest voice
—the world is such a _______ place
Copyright © 2022 by Carolina Ebeid. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 11, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.