Find and share the perfect poems.
the knot
obliterates
inside out,
literalizing
inside out
so that
beautiful
questions
appear to
reappear.
we speak
of knot
or knots
instead of
speaking in
knotting.
to speak of
knotting,
say while
knitting,
induces calm.
aw, but the
heavy roil
of speaking
in knotting!
beautiful
questions
disappear
in hand.
From perennial fashion presence falling. Copyright © 2023 by Fred Moten. Reprinted with the permission of Wave Books and the author.
with David Rothenberg, Nicola Hein, George Lewis, Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Drury, Tanya Kalmanovich, Hans Tammen, Sarah Weaver, David Grubbs, and Ally-Jane Grossan
Logistics sounds like a work song. The bottom anticipates and tills and then it’s time to turn over. This limbned, uncoordinated independence is anagnostic. Flesh touches. I am because we are is some bullshit. I ain’t because we share air lore, more notes on Auto da Fé’s blacking of the presence of an absence.