Relay

Relay is a collection of very short poems constructed from scrambles, slices, and ephemera.

I fed two poetry full lengths, a flash fiction collection, unfinished / busted pieces, college papers, and newspaper articles—all written by me—in a Markov generator tool. The end results were then further rearranged, manipulated, and edited.

Released Aug. 2021

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A Poem:

RAIN BEHIND DOORS

Unknown
fingers of God
wait at the buckle.

I drift about
new for blood—

plasma precisely
saving doses—

Perhaps imperfect
incubator of secrets.

The nucleus
reassuring
as it menaces.

The washing
is a raptor
pocketing scars.

The metaphor
is rain dissolved
behind doors.