There is a universe in which no one is lying

emptied in the street as the gas station burns, a universe
in which our mothers haven’t learned to wrap

their bones in each small grief they’ve found.

___

The poem was not written by me. You can read it here: https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-twenty-franny-choi-the-adroit-journal/

The cover art is an export of this svg file, a 2D rendering of the Calabi-Yau manifold, a conjectured higher dimensional shape that space may take from the perspective of string theory: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Calabi-Yau_variety#/media/File:Calabi_yau_formatted.svg

Franny Choi, Introduction To Quantum Physics, Adroit Journal No.20

Reading from "The Book of Gwenivere" in <i>The Holy Grail</i>. In the collected poems; see page 345.

Jack Spicer - The Book of Gwenivere (Section 7)

Cicadas and human rustling on a warm and humid summer night. CC BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Edited image source: Flickr photographer Dick Pountain, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dick_pountain/28959345405/in/photostream/

A Night On The Deck In Missouri

May's poem, "There Are Birds Here" with incidental sounds. 

Read the poem at the link below, or in May's collection *Hum* from Alice James Books. 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/247156

Jamaal May with bird & hum

URL where you can hear the poet herself read the entirety of this poem: http://spoketoosoonjournal.com/?p=1394 

POET: Mary Austin Speaker is the author of Ceremony, winner of the 2012 Slope Editions book prize; several chapbooks, including The Bridge (Push Press 2011) and 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012); and a collaborative play, written with her husband, poet Chris Martin.

PUBLISHER: Spoke too Soon journal http://spoketoosoonjournal.com/

from "A Storm We Must Endure All Night" by Mary Austin Speaker

Poem by John Beer from one of a sonnet series in The Waste Land and Other Poems, and a sample of birds I took a couple of hours ago. Meanwhile, more birds in the background.



Sonnet to Morpheus / Birds

The poems are by CAConrad, from The Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2009).

Here's the music, from Soundcloud user Greta College Workshop: http://snd.sc/11kNsA1

CAConrad / Greta Cottage Workshop

Poetry performer & poet. None of the poems I have read here are my own. Influenced by the avant garde, NYS Poetry, Surrealism, naif aesthetics, psychoanalysis, gender and social theory, etc.

My cover photo was taken by Gerhard Kassner. It's a photo of Robert Wilson's production of Stein's "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights." http://www.robertwilson.com/doctor-faustus-lights-the-lights/

This is noncommercial work. If I have used your text or sound in a way you find improper, let me know. I will remove it.

Jacob Billingsley

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