Not Ley Lines
Wintry
twigs make
a pernickety
clicking sound
among blotches of January
window light, post-panic white . . .

*

Cooling hot milk
in an ice bath
today's screaming.
Roaming the ratios
like a diorama
rubbernecking vernacular
I basically don't what it

*

Leave the
dishes to

look up
a theory

word on
my phone

hold the
big noun

in my
other hand

up down
squinting, ishing

exposure sloshing
in side

and parts
to repeal

in instalments
ash dab

on my there
fore head

*

Still frilling around objects with a Jacobean
ruff. Freaked out, set a tea towel on fire . . .
Your poem says put that in one of your poems
for drunk relief, to frolic in leaf
so familiar now I hear it before it happens
a kind of hologram, a blotchy aura
of fungibility, written down January 33rd
orthogonal to the line, the "sun's lesion"
in the curved upside time of the poem's
akin to being rude to a spoon. Just listen to
this tune, embarrassinging our room . . .
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Black-and-white headshots of three Nigerian poets joining the 2025 Cave Canem cohort, Saddiq Dzukogi, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi and Tobi Kassim
Cave Canem’s 2025 Cohort

"Sixteen emerging and established voices currently gathered at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg for a transformative week-long residency. Among this year’s cohort are three poets from Nigeria: Saddiq Dzukogi, Tobi Kassim, and Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi....Joining them in the 2025 cohort is a dynamic group of poets including Ajanaé Dawkins, Asia Calcagno, Brandon Kilbourne, Cherise Benton, Crystal Valentine, Joel Kemegue, Kailah Figueroa, Kyle Carrero Lopez, Marina Avery Robinson, MaKshya Tolbert, Nicole Sessions, Rodrick Minor, and Wes Matthews."

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What Sparks Poetry:
Aby Kaupang on Language as Form

"Often I have thought of Bidart’s insistence on the necessary poem as clarifying my draw to poetic architecture. One night, in looking for his specific quote (for the hundredth time), I re-read his 1983 interview with Mark Halliday and was newly drawn to the part where Bidart speaks of a 'will unbroken and in stasis' that has 'learned to refuse' what the world might easily offer."
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