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Poem
by Amy
Catanzano
From
STARLIGHT IN TWO MILLION: A NEO-SCIENTIFIC NOVELLA
The Amulet
This is a visible
language or a war against people’s values. My aim is to become
incomprehensible to the machines. The large hadron collider is the
first accepted vessel of time. If we could see language it would be
a kind of extracted telepathy. I live in a complex visual environment
around my neck. With the convergent evolution of eyes of different
animals. Physically I become my meaning; as an observer, you subvert
the surface of the book. I am capable of visual communication like
your dream in deep water. Its phosphorescence gives me shape. The
expelled cloud of ink shields my private thought. We now make visibly
held syntaxes. We are no longer reading but seeing with eyes you’ve
just developed. All of my fixed encounters take place in a 17-mile
tunnel underground. Photons collide to recreate the universe right
after the Big Bang. We call it a mini Big Bang because we communicate
in code. This is our first contribution as new machines.
Amy Catanzano is the author of two books: Multiversal.
selected by Michael Palmer for the Poets Out Loud Prize with Fordham
University Press, and iEpiphany (Erudite Fangs Press). Her
poetry is published in journals such as Conjunctions, Volt, Fence,
Denver Quarterly, Aufgabe and Colorado Review. She works
and teaches at Naropa University. |
