[Realpoetik] Brenda Iijima

[RealPoetik Magazine]

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 (http://yoyolabs.com/) in Brooklyn.

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