A small collaborative piece with Laynie, an excerpt from her novel in progress. Possibly more along these lines to come.
from Periodic Companions
When we are all assembeled in memory I ask myself why sometimes it takes so long to
compose a paragraph but O. says it is because we have to be able to comfortably inhabit
that space. He isn’t talking about reclining or tromping about but the physical sensation
of words falling out of the mouth, off of the fingers. He says this very confidently, as
if he has spoken of himself as made up of characters of an alphabet as long as he can
remember.—Laynie Browne
I really love this piece. That ribbon floating mid-air between boy wastrel's mouth and girl wastrel's mouth, the text, waiting to be filled in, waiting to be made corporeal. Yes.
I love love love this. Let me know when it's available. Yo M