I suppose it’s strange work, in a locked ward where the margins of sanity expand to the doors of infinity. Each individual claiming their territory of hallucination even to the point of withering. The seizure patients are different and each different from the other. Some have the classic variety, stiffening with eyes rolled […]
Gary Lark
Gary Lark’s work includes: River of Solace, Editor's Choice Chapbook Award from Turtle Island Quarterly (Flowstone Press, 2016); In the House of Memory (BatCat Press, 2016); Without a Map (Wellstone Press, 2013); Getting By, winner of the Holland Prize (Logan House Press, 2009). Ordinary Gravity is forthcoming from Airlie Press, 2019. His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sun, Poet Lore, and ZYZZYVA.
I Don’t Believe
I don’t believe much in believing. But if I were to believe something it would be that we are electromagnetic fields within electromagnetic fields. I would believe that we are light in jackets of flesh stitched together with probability waves. I would believe that awareness is the shimmer of dancing particles, knowing and being one. […]