Ode to Warehouse Rave in the Era of Diminishing Futures
After McKenzie Wark’s Raving
ghostly fortress
stripped
of your machinery
decrepit relic
abandoned
in the after times
let us gather
in your sepulchral womb
industrial hangar
aching
for familiar rattles
of assemblages
daybreak procession
of steel-toed boots
how they unbolted
your tinny muzzle
for stockpiling
so the forklift
could ram right through
we will not betray you
let us transform
this nothing zone
revel in the ruins
of collapsing capital
where we find ourselves
constructing
another kind of love
as the body sheds itself
in a fugue
of technic dissolution
sensing wholly
what it could become
we—
basement mucosae
stomping under the sprawl
fuse into oneness
Of Translation
girl straddles
the in-between
slippery interstice
or gap
wondering
where is loss
to be found?
I ask girl to translate
the cosmos
cross-stitch constellations
of language
and void—
what then, girl
more torturous
than silence?
limina-language
the clash
in non-meaning
apt to fall
not-together
who, then
emerges?
from blotched desire
dreamt into becoming
what of a language
with no time?
of-precarity
girl straddles the axis
of ancient
and eternal
wends toward
asymptote
that glimmering horizon
abyssal plunge
at home in the porousness
of utterance
its circuitry
how we orbit a promise
that from light
will come silence
and redaction is
a handful of tongues
how the ink slices
slight river of blood
Grace Dignazio is a Brooklyn-based writer concerned with the subversive possibilities of digital technologies as a medium for poetics. Her work engages with a lineage of writers attuned to the precariousness of identity and the entanglements of language and ecology in the shadow of a slow apocalypse. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The New School, where she works as a research assistant and Poetry Editor for The Inquisitive Eater.