Panel #131

Massacre    —    this warfield   (
park )
autobiographical           
 Memorializes
Mirror and other Magick        There
is:
a moment          between grey and
blue
Of clouds       —       is more fleet
than
Wild geese            which cross the
sky
laterally their movements ascribed   
Δ
Neutralize me       Subsequent: he
they
hix           hissing        THEIR is
Norse
oldest of languages     SANSKRIT
the
stairs or basis                   has
neutered
pronouns of     “I” and “you”     
doing
away w/        the problem in
formation
though:                   not in praxis
while
the Spanish gender of:  every
pronoun
frustrates those in Madrid       
 French
Academy will   mandate     a
language
and reveal:     the reality of the
wildest
thing   —   language  —   caught
up in
governance to mandate the ME       

un   obstacle    à     la   
compréhension

Thom Eichelberger-Young (T E-Y) is an artist, publisher, editor, and mental health caregiver living in Buffalo, New York. Their work includes the books BESPOKE (Saint Andrews University Press, 2019), and TUPELO IS A GENUS OF DECIDUOUS TREE (Blue Bag Press, 2024). Thom operates Blue Bag Press and is found doing such on IG @bluebagpress or bluebagpress.squarespace.com. This work is excerpted from a longer project tentatively titled THE PANELS.