Reposted by will erickson 🐧🦉
July 11! I'm hosting a reading in Chicago at The Whistler with some of my favorite writers & favorite people. Doors at 6. Hope to see you there!
@willerickson.bsky.social x @saramatson.bsky.social x @evansquilliams.bsky.social x Lemmy Ya'akova x Nathan Hoks x @martinezfjulian.bsky.social
!["I sit outside in the weather / and listen for languages,' william
erickson tells us. These poems are the result of that listening. In
the poet's body, languages build up, until they emerge dense and
potent in structures so quiet, so devastating, so multidimensional
that readers reel in slow-mo from one delicious soft shock to
another. The speaker's body extends into the landscape, and/
or the landscape furnishes parts of the ongoing, changing body,
'folding into earth like an unblooming apple. These poems are
hauntings, too; we will want and need to keep returning to them,
will carry them with u1S in mutual inhabitation. 'Ghosts are just
bodies too great to keep hidden inside.' We are lucky to
accompany erickson on his world- and word-making journeys,
where [o]n the lip of the desert / [his] tongues pile up,' and so do ours."
jay besemer, author of your tongue is as long as a tuesday](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zlstoeygq3i7tgtnqwib7kcn/bafkreihsycwuxkys56pp3ntbshrpap4stqn23q2nxuxefx24bt6u6al2fa)
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SNARSKY
Tower in Orange and Green
I.
I have wintered in my selfishness
Which did not produce fruit. I bought
[the next line is cut off, but can be read at the link in the post]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vcaay2y6qaxmedo6adtgegz/bafkreihswaqnx37mcwmq326stey4j3mqrbrf6s2z77aqnhpjz6wka6iwbu)
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The trees finished dinner
It was very late at night.
The spidets nevet understood
Why the spiders of the sea
Were so upset with them.
The ocean has water but it's all useless
filled with empty words.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zlstoeygq3i7tgtnqwib7kcn/bafkreihxzbrxhczx32mpz465vjxcyr5oipncyhvczzun2uyg32fyj4d7zu)
