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Katie O’Sullivan

Transcription: rupture with / the first spring doesn't / feel like fog / my season / Faces with an angry dissonance / compacted noise cancelled YOU / your music / my season of ROY / inside out after time flex / street sleeping quarter cup / how to tell EXACTLY how bad / it actually is / sober probability Visual: Scanned black and white image of handwritten untitled poem in black ink on postcard paper, no punctuation
Transcription: my microembarrassments — hidden from others / add up to / one great / humiliation / to be indulged / from time to time Visual: Scanned image of handwritten untitled poem in navy ink on white postcard paper. Poem features an em dash between the words "microembarrassments" and "hidden." There is also a scribbled out word between "one" and "great" which is not legible but places the postcard in the context of the live-writing done in the workshop. One hand drawn horizontal line hovers over the word "humiliation" and another below it.
Transcription (left side of card): compliment my w / aves halved as / shape of fruit b / athe and burnt or / ange cake made w / ith farina soaked / melt domestic picks / up where we left / off compliment my / cake orange made / halved shape of / fruit Transcription (right side of card): a lot of o / cean today a / permanent thaw / rolled away the / reveal the sting / silent tear strew / n fabric ated n / on mastery myst / ry / cries sound / ing surprise d / diet soda stack / beachhomewith y / ou Visual: Scanned image of handwritten untitled poem in navy ink on white postcard paper. Poem is written in two columns on one card, left side and right side. Poem features unconventional line breaks and choppy words indicated in transcription. Both sides of the card form block-like shapes, with no punctuation. The left side has 12 lines and the right side has 13 lines.

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

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