Entropy chaos randomness or is it statistical
mechanics? no wait this must–must be
a reference to communication theory or
maybe–the– degradation of all matter
or energy that this shit of a year can muster
I gasp could call it rebound only that’s more
consumptive more enabling than reality–
damnit I feel you
I feel you
I feel you I feel you I feel you because I’ve
been there too my breathe stops mid belly
and now my mind stops mid line this space
is the space I live for
the space
the space
the space
I live for in poetry in literature in line play
ing back through imagination to hold me
suspended
in dim light
I am hunched at my desk–mid autumn–asking
“what am I building with my life?”
Ashely Hynd’s book can be purchased from the Gap Riot Press website at: https://www.gapriotpress.com/shop/p/at6i2h9jw8uo9tn7e08uppsjy2hvrk. Readers can also contact her through her website if they wish to purchase a copy of her book directly. https://mabuntupoetry.wordpress.com/
Ellen Chang-Richardson @ehjchang is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Cambodian-Chinese descent. The author of three poetry chapbooks, Unlucky Fours (Anstruther Press), Assimilation Tactics (Coven Editions) and snap, pop, performance (Gap Riot Press), her work is forthcoming in Watch Your Head, third coast magazine, The Fiddlehead, and more. She is the founder of Little Birds Poetry, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series, and a member of the poetry collective VII. Ellen currently lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishinabeg First Nation (Ottawa, Ontario). www.ehjchang.com
