Hectic Pigment

I’ll tell you this much: space is pierced with a bony flicker a woman on the street sold me a spinal column so I put it on, I put it in for years I crawled around in a rubble of numbers a palace of matchsticks was all I could muster outside my cage everything happens just before daybreak a skeleton twitters wrinkles a puddle flapping its featherless wings

Jed Rasula's previous collections of poetry include Tabula Rasula (1986) and Hot Wax, or Psyche's Drip (2007). He co-edited Imagining Language (1998) with Steve McCaffery, and Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity (2012) with Tim Conley. Currently a professor at the University of Georgia, Rasula has worked in radio, television, publishing, and other trades.