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hope - "the keep writing project exquisite corpse poem"

from L​.​A. Zine Fest AudioZine Compilation No​.​1 Quarantine by L.A. Zine Fest

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Hi, this is Hope from gutwrench press and the keep writing project. Every month I print and mail a letterpress printed postcard to subscribers. Half is for them to keep, the other half they send back to me after answering a prompt or question. Today I am reading an exquisite corpse style poem created with guest writers and subscribers together. I provided a title and asked Brian Mattarochia to send 3-10 lines. Subscribers received this and offered the next line. I chose one and sent it to Anis Mojgani repeating the process to finish with Jenn Marie Nunes. Each of these writers sent me lines in their handwriting, which I made into a printing plate and letterpress printed. The first card was sent September 2019 with the third installment sent in May. This is issue number 133 of Keep Writing and just in the span of time since starting this poem, I decided to move from New Orleans to Portland Oregon. I arrived just in time for the shelter in place order.

WE CREATE NOTHING ALONE
I took your picture
with me in my pocket
when i went to the underworld
when I wandered into the woods
in my dreams
and never came back
never emerged from the other side
never came back
never came back out
there was a tiny perfect spider consuming me
and it was you.
You and the rest of your siblings
were gathering somewhere
and I was walking with the tiniest of blueberries
the sun overhead bright as a new tooth
I was missing something in me
not sure if it was what was always had once been in the hole
or if it was now the hole itself
but there was a song
and it was using my body to make itself move to make itself loud
and that which was tiny
was now immense
exhibit A
the system cracking out its
own ribs or
a cat flat on the tarmac
an eruption of flies
and when you name me
the small skin of which
contained me
lets you in.

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from L​.​A. Zine Fest AudioZine Compilation No​.​1 Quarantine, released June 5, 2020

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