ISSUE 17: SPRING 2012

Shadowgraph 132: These Cells Flicker

Listen   ‘seminal’: liquid crystal … (persistent; ‘the problem of wetting.’) between a rod & a soft place … when the chic hits the fan. ‘postwar’: quietly spoken, tom’s turbulent eyes. the self effacing teachers. ‘fields’; shearing the light … (science, the last daze?) quarry—the open face of god. (the sudden death of eschatology.) freud, ‘the rear end of the world!’ tv, pc, these cells flicker … america: dirty housewives (‘the popular soaps …’). ‘plastics’—poly- merde. climate change; air of arrogance. (‘stunt men,’ acid rain in the lab …) the new matt- er doors. (the man who wrote the book on bubbles.) ‘when all at once’: figures like flowers grew in the field … the neural pathway home? being dipped in numbers. (big lies; tiny fib- res.) captive fondling, these wonderfully flexible chains! ‘workmanlike’: women drilled by screws. (capitalism, life above the shop.) poetic invention? to create new forms of matter- ing! ‘liberation’—god what we found/when we looked in the cells