(BTW - can you also include some keywords for the socials?)

What are my key words?     Where     are my key words?      How do they intra-act?
Socialise?      Can I use them to make meanings?      with clarity?      for you?      or do they
have other ideas in store for us?      My meanings     are     unlike your meanings     but
like them too.      My moon     is     like unlike like     your moon     but     like enough?      to
resonate?      Close enough     to touch?      To intra-act     but     not so close     we will
collapse.      Again.      After.      Before.      Later.      Remember.      Soon.      Imagine     I’ll ask
you to imagine.      I’m asking you to imagine     now     cut     into the present     right now
now     the future already     again     past     again     we try to attend     constructing
slivers of meaning     cut     now     cut     now     cut     from with in     the in-determinacy.
We map the flight lines of our migration     that dotted line     after     before     later
remember     imagine     just a disturbance in the underlying resonance     we listen     for
the relations in chance     the baffle of blurbells     that should have been bluebells     or
should it?      This co-incidence     holding meaning     dearly     letters intra-acting     in
the mind     on the tongue     in the air     the inscape of sounds     slipping     the inner
tension patterning form     wavering     into a key note     key words     finding their
synchronicity     down by the creek creaking     the trees ringing gently     red sticks for
hands.      Imagine.      Again.      Soon.      Remember     before     I said I was trying to be
clear     but words are so slippery     down by the creak speaking     it’s not entirely their
fault     just mostly     just mossy     down in the substrate     with in the entanglement
of     co-incidence     are there ever any accidents?

(Sorry – I’m pretty sure this is not what you had in mind?)


Gareth Jenkins’s first book Recipes for the Disaster won the 2019 Anne Elder award and his second book The Inclination Compass, a multi-media poetic narrative, was published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2023. He is the managing editor of Apothecary Archive press and a member of the editorial advisory board of 5 Islands Press.