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Edmund Berrigan

Bed is where we figure the scale of our seams disruptions in our dreams give them memory we speak each other in silence not invisible clocks changed by hands 3-14-23 alt text: The poem is written by hand with colored pencils on a blank postcard. Each line is a different color: light blue, black, pink, dark blue, violet, dark green, light blue. Below the poem is a drawing of a clock in light and dark orange, drawn by holding two pencils simultaneously. Above the clock but below the poem are 3 lines extending from left to right, and then turning down to the bottom of the card. The lines light blue, pink and green, and were drawn by holding the 3 pencils simultaneously.
It's happening We've become unfolding mystery ordinary paper discrepancies in language feet stomping from the ceiling music banging a distant(ce) and stops, restarting a secret shared a tasted comfort holding & holding sprinting on a platform thinking ahead reading into rolling of further permutations seeing us again 4-4-23 alt text: The poem is written by hand with colored pencils on a blank postcard. Each line is a different color: black, purple, red, light blue, dark green, orange, dark blue, brown, dark red, dark pink, grey, light pink, light blue, black, dark red, green, dark grey.
Anselm calls me in dark blue while I'm teaching a workshop in light blue I don't pick up but teach his poems in varying reds neither of which match his book cover 4-4-23 alt text: The poem is written by hand with colored pencils on a blank postcard. The first two lines are dark blue, the next 3 are light blue, the next 3 are orange, the next two are dark red, and the last is black. To the right of the poem, starting above it and ending 2/3rds of the way through is a drawing in purple of a tube that resembles an old telephone handle, with white ovals at each end. The handle is thinner than the two ends.

Work from Obtuse Angles, Tentative Skies, Awkward Chops with Edmund Berrigan

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