Loping couplets informed by two early-twentieth-century European humanists: Thomas Mann and G.I. Gurdjieff. Excerpted from a continually self-negating long poem, A Glim in a Jiffy charts a switchbacking path among personal disclosures, sense memories, dreams, and fabrications, rejecting the orderly idiolect of our increasingly anti-human present.

A Glim in a Jiffy, Parker Menzimer

June, 2027

7 pages

Parker Menzimer is the author of the chapbooks Aion’s Ribbon (Inpatient Press), and The Links (1080press). With Maxwell Paparella, he is co-author of Towpath to the Interior (The Double Tied Press), a collection of cinquains. His poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Annulet, Prelude, Tagvverk, Works & Days, Second Factory, and elsewhere. His writing has received support from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.