Originally published in the typeset edition of Volume 14: Sense and Sensation. View original PDF.

Excursion

Poems to Great Affairs

Jessica L. Wilkinson

SANSIMEON

Cultivating a view Life-script-stage-screen

on the soil of the Chumash

Your hand

stretching through millennia

balancing the weight

Galatea awakens from the grip

fecit

of my curls

of her master’s representation

stretching towards me

appreciating the irony

swell

Gérôme taints his creation

your lips

in delicate colors

tenderness <Moderato (with feeling)>

that have since worn away

ecstasy

NOTES IN A CRISIS

Stave off the noise the madness e Stave off the words the language c Stave off the communication the confusion a Stave off the mastery the illusion f Stave off all emotive misunderstandings

Stave off the stutter the colour r Stave off the music the mood u Stave off the notion the presence l Stave off the re-use the non-sense e Stave off all economies of love and hatred

M

- For Attempting the Impossible

sexual domination
the act of creation
the barbarity of modern politics

a man in a suit painted a woman is there a chance that the biographer out of existence or into tempting the existence the wall and into the air of substance or presence drew her shame may hesitate she was bare at the title he fancied her of a section a perspective the nexus left her arm quivering a genealogy of intertexts beneath intense meditation delighting in good humour

A breach in counterpoint

apperception out of the Labyrinth assimilation of plot frames

Jessica L. Wilkinson