Fond of Our Shadow
words by Patrick Ignasiak
illustration by Chelsey Wang
Bite down on the umbilicus, resurrecting the road. Weathered
asphalt reflects the death of birds, and their shadows
elongate on: teeth extending beyond the furrows
of your body, just beginning,
extrasensory
from rewoven molecules beneath a heap of mud. Still,
you know nothing of sleep, lengths of carbon chains
unspooled from your pupils in the manner of the
worm in the beak of the bird in the emerging
stereoscopic integration of multiple
hole substructures.
You straddle my lap, a thin impression of bone feathered
thinner by looped and relooped protein folds. The
mnemonics are moot, but, glacier-verb neologisms
implied a finger-on-thumb reverb of
gliding
through the green of the
grove
beyond the road. But then, today, feeding endlessly the throat,
this carpet of chewed charcoal with dossiers of all
the dead, the same palate-rattling bolt of thought.
Certain animals,
never specified, seized in pores unorganised, for
example, a pack of wolves as non-decomposable
variable distances, expressed as your freckle
substructures… Is it fair to say
anything at all?