Wildflower Hotline

peace is possible in the object//body binary

             instrument & figure

                         on the hairy meadow stage set

worlds with serious range:

                                     caress

                                     to

                                     doom

indeterminate winds     (fans modulated by human impulse)

good bees                         (laser pointers)

decomposition               (superimposed lighting effect)

from tonal rains             (shower heads hung from theatre barrels)

I can’t unburn and unkill

with my dislocated investment in puppetry

   but I actually do want to save the world

      with        pollens      carriers     a good script

          red leather vegan leather

          found in: pataphysics, textual practice

I am rewarded         with pollinator interpretations

                   carry the microspore,    revise the land.

Crystal Lattice Mapping of Private Life

                    You see a beach where

there   was   supposed   to   be   a   thought   exercise.

                          clandestine

                          multi-use

                          clam lattice

You combine things you own

            to enact an idea               about ownership:

that one in the hand

         is worth two in the       asignifying meshwork.

Suppose you share your blurry

harvest with greased

        figures                 bright                  unbothered

Will there be anything left

in your experiential field      [which is     dysregulated by a paroxysm

                                       of desire]

                                           ?

this tension between autonomy

   & collaboration

contains information

   & neuroses

I can logically accept

   & yet

                                                                       [getting stung by many bees in public]

can’t just sit there and take it.

Christine Kelly is the author of the forthcoming collection of poems Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid (Creative Writing Department, 2023), Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and Pudding Time (DoubleCross Press, 2015). She lives in North Adams, MA and also makes drawings and embroideries.