CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2021. Their book While Standing in Line for Death won a Lambda Literary Award. They also received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and upcoming events at [...]

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GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS

ON ALL FOURS I AM A SEAT FOR THE WIND

ACCLIMATING TO DISCOMFORT OF THE SYSTEM BREAKING BENEATH US

900 CHOCOLATE HEARTS A MINUTE AT THE CANDY FACTORY

AUGURIES CAST ASIDE

ONLY IN STACKING BOOKS CAN THE TREE FEEL ITS WEIGHT AGAIN

DEATH WILL SET YOUR DAY RIGHT

BATHE THE DOOR WITH BLOOD OF THE CENTAUR

FOR THE FERAL SPLENDOR THAT REMAINS

ALTERED AFTER TOO MANY YEARS UNDER THE MASK

EMBEDDED SIGNAL TO SHAKE THE DAY

NO ONE HOLDING IT SHUT

YOU CANNOT RETURN A STRETCHED MIND

GLITTER IN MY WOUNDS

WE VANISH INTO ONE ANOTHER AS NEEDED

IMPALED BY SHARP POINTS OF WONDERMENT

DIVING INTO THE PREMONITION

THE ASKING PRICE

ENCIRCLING THIS DAY WITH CENTIPEDE COORDINATION

CAMISADO

ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF

AMERICA¿S ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT WHILE THE WARS RAGE ON

MEMORIES OF WHY I STOPPED BEING A MAN

45 MINUTES TO RESCUE THE PHOTO ALBUM BEFORE THE GARBAGE TRUCK ARRIVES

MURDER IS AGAINST A RULE SOMEWHERE THAT IS NOT AMERICA

!! !

VISIT A LIVING BEING TO EAT WHAT FALLS FROM THEIR BODY

72 CORONA TRANSMUTATIONS

The (Soma)tic Poetry Ritual:

Resurrect Extinct Vibration

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS