The Dog of Time by Brenda Iijima

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 26, 2015   The Dog of Time   Brenda Iijima

The dog of time pitchfork canter laced with mercury after-crave any semblance to human is speculative, we’ve unburdened the mass, the massive body signage, bondage, turf implant unwiring programs and last resort paradigms indicated by the spikes in goneness unknowable flash how it feels to be a terminator to be livestock replenished caretaking around the pain dogs of the animal in motion in deliberation carrying on over cloud cover as the twilight descends the animal is secreted ocean compression and endless body spills the edges are dissolved animal highlight animal awareness animal forever the light is diminished water spills over and the heat is a harbinger and who is subject to this authority rescue and an epistemological critique and cross a proscribed threshold where the forest once was now an emergency living space            Copyright © 2015 by Brenda Iijima. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This poem is from a manuscript titled ‘Bionic Communality.’ Wolves show up as protagonists in an ecological system fraught with pressures. A human-centric world is spun off its axis.” —Brenda Iijima   Brenda Iijima is the author of Untimely Death Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon (1913 Press, 2015). She runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Most Recent Book by Iijima   Untimely Death Is Driven Out Beyond the Horizon (1913 Press, 2015) "With Passing Wonder I Notice the Tracks of an Animal" by David Biespiel "The Future is an Animal" by Tina Chang "From the Canal" by Michael Dickman Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038