Poetry. In these pieces, the world is brought, but only half-way. Flickering, shifts, ambiguities prevent the reader from looking at the poem from the outside, as he or she might a snapshot or postcard; instead the reader must enter it, must become part of the view, an element in the landscape... As one goes down into the sentence, one goes into the world, in which bodies, themselves landscapes, begin to fray, become an unraveling zone between the word and the world and become also the poem itself a bridge between body and world --Cole Swenson. Then sleep and voice and everyone with it fading./ The red barn at the top of the brown hill./ The skidding bicyclist./ An unfinished block of wood (meant to be a calf)/ forgotten in the garage.// I made a simple set of rules. Couldn't follow them./ A stiff night-wind rattles the eucalyptus hillside (Simple Set of Rules).

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Poetry

Ex Nihilo Press

Poetry. In an unbroken poem of heat and breadth, Polkinhorn explores the phenomena of blue shifting, or inescapable convergence. With an urgency that is at once sprawling and specific, Polkinhorn draws us back towards our own lives -- forcing us into their rapid intersections and tight corners. It is ferociously driven. Take a big breath and buckle yourself in for the ride -- nowhere you// Can imagine yet their guiltless movements utterly/ Charm you a frisson of recognition the thin// Light a flickering haze and hints of people you/ May have known whose insubstantial forms// Or the abortion that eliminated its chance/ Still barring your way until dawn/ Which will return with its load of cold to be offered/ Up your forearms thigh-bones to keep the channel// Open but whose infancy or vaunted genealogy/ Like a rogue phenotype if you pay strict attention. Harry Polkinhorn is an experimental poet/artist, translator, and editor whose works have been exhibited and published worldwide.

Blue Shift

Polkinhorn, Harry

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Blue Shift