"ratchet up to reconsider" and "handle with care"

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ratchet up to reconsider
after P. Staff

scream of stasis  stasis stasis stasis stasis stasis stasis stasis stasis
thrumming urgency urgency urgency urgency urgency urgency
against the pressure of goodness goodness goodness goodness
find time
 find time find time time time time time time time time
tilted tilted tilted
 tilted out tilted out tilted out tilted out of joint 
static haze electrifies currents current
currents current currents
built
by body by body by body by body by body by body by body
body as flashpoint body as flashpoint
body as flashpoint body as
digging
digging into haptic engagements digging into haptic dig
the poem
 is body the poem is body the poem is body the poem
is body  the body is the poem the
body is the  poem the body is
the poem the body the poem the body the
poem the body body
speed tempo speed tempo speed tempo speed tempo at which
each work
each work each work each work each work work work
an energetic accumulation
a debris an energetic accumulation a
a debris an energetic accumulation a
debris an energetic debris
tilted tilted tilted tilted tilted tilted tilted
tilted on its axis tilted
just enough to ask
to ask to ask how does violence reconstitute
the body?
retinal burn extended retinal burn extended retinal
burn extended burn extended retinal
burn extended retinal burn
extended retinal extended burn retinal
extended burn retinal
extended burn retinal burn extended retinal burn burn extended
retinal extended retinal burn just enough to ask extended retinal
burn burn retinal burn extended retinal burn extended retinal
burn extended retinal retinal retinal burn extended violence
extended complexity extended layered extended retinal burn
goodness burn light burn body burn goodness burn light burn joy
burn body burn goodness burn light burn joy burn body extended
what is it like to truly live in a world on fire? extended extended
ext—

         

Jin-me Yoon, Handle with care (don’t waste the pain), 2023, billboard, © Jin-me Yoon

handle with care
after Jin-me Yoon

         conditions of work

         may soon document
         consequence of digitization

         until then re/write
         re/vitalize

         re/wild the interwoven—

         this theatre, under the stars

About the author

Ellen Chang-Richardson (they/them) is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and the author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, Ellen's multi-genre work has appeared in Grain, Plenitude, Vallum, Watch Your Head, and more. Find them online at www.ehjchang.com.