RAW PARTICULATE LANGUAGE WAGES
Where were you when we needed you subconscious field richness
Bubbly oily rich homology such gesticulating orchestrations
Wash us thick with substance
Because it can be done par excellence lasting opus
Little contrast great emphasis
There's sex to be had in the language shimmering large alluvial plains
That is why the study of soil covering prelinguistic sites is so interesting
Since the beginning of life on earth material corroborates
Glaciers are energized moving rivers of ice oozing moraine deposits like mind
Dirt and rocks at the edges
Time might be said to oscillate elsewhere prairies interspersed with woodlands
You can brace yourself against a cave wall for structure
Prehistoric men go out hunting
Women struggle with the roots
It is a great feat that we bred the aurochs
The height of the withers of a large domesticated cow is roughly 1.5 meters
Convert that to stomach fat couch tuber yam
In Jaktorów, Poland the last known live arouchs, a female died in 1627
Swedes stole her head in a battle waged with the Poles
Studying the dissected brain of the fetal pig we inspire a notion of ourselves
We can imagine creatures with mandibles like ours but evolutionarily birds
It's been nice knowing you eating everything that breathes
I miss you, tribes of the Würm glaciation roaming is a favorite past time of mine
Civilization pales in comparison with night
Brenda Iijima's chapbook, Subsistence Equipment is just out from Faux Press. Animate, Inanimate Aims was recently released by Litmus Press. Forthcoming publications include Rabbit Lesson (Fewer & Further) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). She teaches at Cooper Union and runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in Brooklyn.