Andrew Cantrell
ITS LINE STRAYS INTO THE WORLD
Andrew Cantrell's poems have appeared in Exact Change Only and Beecher's Magazine, and his performances have been documented in Emergency Index. He lives in Chicago where he works as a union organizer, does things with words, organizes occasional intermedia projects involving poetry, sound, and social practice, and co-curates an experimental screening series. He holds an MA and PhD (ABD) in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and studied labor relations at Cornell University.
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ITS LINE STRAYS INTO THE WORLD
What concerns us in ambiguous
across the sky in the axis or
tense of a daubed stone wall is a
beguilement Although stone-submerged eyes
always will instigate from translation
So we would always resemble the
porcelain which we had enveloped
For to be of concern is to begin
beguilement A transition simultaneously
a luminous something that was promised
us and another travel imagined
as transverse each bearing ourselves and
ornamental in our resistance
SLOWNESS
I did not absorb much of what those
minutes only they seem strewn with loss led
to over on the cellar floor (stylize
words here somewhat) and our sudden exit
from the train But when I tired of their strain
I could always find something like two seconds
at the close of the only situations
that are minutes still
Andrew Cantrell's poems have appeared in Exact Change Only and Beecher's Magazine, and his performances have been documented in Emergency Index. He lives in Chicago where he works as a union organizer, does things with words, organizes occasional intermedia projects involving poetry, sound, and social practice, and co-curates an experimental screening series. He holds an MA and PhD (ABD) in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and studied labor relations at Cornell University.