My Yellow Heart

It starts with an email, an invitation: Eclipse and eclipse are parentheses around vivid attention. Treat this time as its own. Note changes. Make lists to catalog, and prevent erasure. 1. These lists are containers, sometimes for broken-down things: a. debris, old electronics b. mollusks (husks) c. cave echoes d. quadrants, to taste 2. These lists are feasts, sometimes with others: a. seaweed and white fish, shrimp tempura b. bread c. olive oil from the middle / of the sea and east your apex d. tomatoes flecked with salt e. eggplants, in afterthought bites 3. These parentheses gather time, gently: a. my midnight: soft b. the basket of an afternoon 4. This map traces things: a. like roots 1. and leaves 2. and rivers 3. and 4. death and the moon, in shadow

• | Author: Vi Khi Nao
• | Publisher: Girl Noise Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 86 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1737380641
• | ISBN-13: 9781737380641