The complete issue will be available as well at dusie.org
the 49 contributors are:
Jared Hayes, Cara Benson, Amy King, Emma Phillipps, Arielle Guy, Jane Sprague, Ana Bozicevic, Anna Moschovakis, Kaia Sand, Anna Fulford, Samar Abulhassan, Mackenzie Carignan, Zoe Skoulding, Catherine Meng, Ann Bogle, Susana Gardner, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Michelle Noteboom, Stephanie Young, Dawn Pendergast, Marthe Reed, Carmen Gimenez Smith, Maureen Thorson, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Bronwen Tate, Elizabeth Bryant, Jill Stengel, Jessica Bozek, Julia Drescher, Derek Beaulieu, James Cummins, Amanda Deutch, Nicole Mauro, Catherine Wagner, Mairéad Byrne, Juliana Leslie, Juliet Cook, Jennifer Karmin, Jenn Hofer, Kathrin Schaeppi, Carrie Hunter, Michelle Detorie, Sarah Ann Cox, Mark Lamoureux, Annie Finch, Dana Teen Lomax, Arielle Greenberg, Paul Klinger, Tracy Grinnell
Kaia Sand merges today’s messages with yesterday’s images.
“am I viewing the past or the future?”
I wonder and Sand says it: “recognition bends.”
Each poem is accompanied by a still frame stamped with “Oregon Historical Society.” Stills from a home-movie shot by a machine shop operator & inventor in the 30s & 40s. What with “a centrigrade uptick—“ ? Too much sun and too little, too little water and too much. Temps (in centigrade and workers) rising.
Sand takes us local close up:
“this is the jeweled among us, water breathers, small smelt from nearby streams
nearness is knowledge touching the fish touches back...”