Speak Back

all the talk boxes talk back
spews down hills

replied to myself in words
I got an ongoing era
super power dreams,
the rest
body links
a kind of
missing and unaccountable
weeks of just incase

to clarify
another counter counter
counter counter

to clarify
an after decade perspective
mapping back

in every direction
there is no no here

perhaps simple nostalgia
love things

perhaps
I think
who said

amid this growing craze
speaking idols speak back
substituting proportions for humans












kari edwards is a poet, artist and gender activist, received one of Small Press Traffic's books of the year awards (2004), New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002); and is author of obedience, Factory School (2005); iduna, O Books (2003), a day in the life of p. , subpress collective (2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002), and post/(pink) Scarlet Press (2000). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry (2004), Bay Poetics, Faux Press, (2006),Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, Coffee House Press, (2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, Coach House, Toronto, (2004), Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Hawoth Press, Inc. (2004), Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2., Seattle Research Institute (2003), Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted Leaf Press (2000), Aufgabe, Tinfish, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Amerikan Hotel, Boog City, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and Submodern Fiction. kari can always be contacted at: k.e.terra1@gmail.com






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