this is what you’ll never find: VHS cassette reeling until you’re young again; tape-head cleaner in an eye-drop bottlestored above room temperature. remember when, midaction, you push on ejectto use the rewinder until the spoolruns out of breath, the other lung so dark & full the past recreates itself; father’s vinyl player turns a song …
many things have marked you as the alien already here in the New World and so you were not pretending when you pronounced the word: Arkansas, you who have crossed the Atlantic bruised with jet lag and vertigostressing the second syllable, upon descent from the sky, nobody on the floor could un derstand when you …
with a phrase from Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” a name is a noose that won’t let you be.my full name was once woven from threefibers, a cord of three that i dare to breakinto two knots on a tongue. please excuse,foreman, my Hebrew. Yirmeyahu means Godis high. it’s why i love the tower from distance.O- …