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Panel #131

Massacre    —    this warfield   ( park )
autobiographical             Memorializes
Mirror and other Magick        There is:
a moment          between grey and blue
Of clouds       —       is more fleet than
Wild geese            which cross the sky
laterally their movements ascribed   Δ
Neutralize me       Subsequent: he they
hix           hissing        THEIR is Norse
oldest of languages     SANSKRIT the
stairs or basis                   has neutered
pronouns of     “I” and “you”      doing
away w/        the problem in formation
though:                   not in praxis while
the Spanish gender of:  every pronoun
frustrates those in Madrid         French
Academy will   mandate     a language
and reveal:     the reality of the wildest
thing   —   language  —   caught up in
governance to mandate the ME       —
un   obstacle    à     la   compréhension

Thom Eichelberger-Young (T E-Y) is an artist, publisher, editor, and mental health caregiver living in Buffalo, New York. Their work includes the books BESPOKE (Saint Andrews University Press, 2019), and TUPELO IS A GENUS OF DECIDUOUS TREE (Blue Bag Press, 2024). Thom operates Blue Bag Press and is found doing such on IG @bluebagpress or bluebagpress.squarespace.com. This work is excerpted from a longer project tentatively titled THE PANELS. 

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