i as in sow a muskrat tooth back into jaw
i as in dented pumpkin memory
i as in deflated basketball consciousness
i as in anaphoric internet parrot projection loop
i as in holding uterine lining above a toilet bowl
i as in wide eyed no eyelids whatsoever
i as in anastamosing a dissociated spark
i as in interrogating repression w a single light bulb
i as in carving out swallowed memories from muscle mass
i as in for a purpose beholden but how
i as in flight attendant placing a napkin on your thigh pre-prandial (asmr)
i as in language stripped of signifying mechanisms (earth noises)
i as in adumbrating wolves viewed from a youtube video
i as in plz let me say just one true thing in this form
i as in effortless dwell of complex incorrigible decision
i as in water dressaging across creekstone
i as in every photo of your life stored in a hard drive orbiting earth
i as in swimming like a dog in the riverflesh
i as in choreografted into terrestrial entanglement
i as in twirl-lit in a vague eden
i as in my/our wounds opening like cereus in moonlight
i as in why do people laugh when i interact with them
i as in what if all thoughts even this cannot be untethered from ego
i as in ensconced with a detrimental something
i as in past life as avaricious empress committing sororicide
i as in before you were a human you were black radiance
i as in a golden nothing forever
i as in a trans/cendent immanence
i as in the cracking open sound our reaching toward each other makes
i as in we/us
Rose Zinnia's "I As In." Used with permission from the poet.