Carrie Hunter

 

 

 

 

 

Adjacencies Towards Friendship

 

Just thinking about giraffes makes me angry now.
                                                        The trope of seriousness. Or.
                                                        The irrational’s relation to the
                                                        rational is irrationality’s
                                                        importance to itself.
Nostalgia for the present would be an empty space.
MEADOW HOLES LIKE DONUT HOLES.
There's exodus and there's Exodus.
The choral reaches up. You see their arms hovering.
Next rhizomatic exit.
Women have to wear mustaches. And pears.
A dialogue no one has, not even in his heart.
                                                       Let’s plan to never do the same things
                                                       for the sake of a nostalgia.
Pinpoint experience and it exists.
Light is the first animal of the visible.
Three psychiatrists quit in rapid succession.
Not the language of the body but the language on the body.
The relationship between me and the other isn't symmetrical.
A psychological condition that creates an unquenchable thirst.
If anyone understands me then I wasn't clear.
                                                         Dream voice: “How do you get the
                                                         bright wings off the table?”
Montage practice.
All disease is on a continuum.
A room of one's own is a temporality.
It's like we're in a mirage together.
I CAN SEE THE LIGHT AND ITS A DISCO LIGHT.
What the body cannot process, it echoes.

 

Carrie Hunter received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, ypolita press, is on the editorial board of Black Radish Books, and co-curates the Hearts Desire Reading Series. Her chapbook Vice/Versajust came out with dancing girl press, her full-length collection, The Incompossible, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books, and another, Orphan Machines, is forthcoming this summer. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.