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1. CLOUD MODIFICATIONS (Score: Luke Howard; Mise en scène: Jacques) i. Hard Candy Sideways the knowledge came. First they had no sense of it. Then, and then—ants boiled up from sidewalk’s taffy fuzzy seams frantic lava Chocolate shavings left out to melt— Then they sensed sugar might be a general cause. an empty shoebox filled Tar bead eyes they squeezed from dark rivers on noon roads they squeezed the eyes Closed. Then, and then—frigid hamster, three pink grubs gone before the mother stopped One survived with a scar, chip from an ear, that made him the hero never journeyed limp by turns And they hesitated when called to supper. Then, and then—snakeflash in the gully marzipan coil— but no— Then, and then, it rained, worms exploded from nothing, illustrated the yard dry ampersands with little “c”s Twigs of red licorice—but no—a little thing’s last wisdom vetted on green flesh Mommy’s swelled up squirming gut Then illness, the ripened melon tapped to heal her, and for weeks she nursed ice cream bowls They turned eager for it, smashed potato bugs for spice, tore white powder wings Caught a bunny and sheared its ears, they were not sweet. Then— and then— 11
Sideways the knowledge came. A budgie who rhymed, nestled in clavicles palm shiver blind thin Bright as a lollipop, stopped. No one would kiss the chalky head. another shoe box hole in a hole She was Cirrus, sprigged on sky some years, then sprouting. Like seeing an organ gleam from above magic mirror shard Still they fought the peripheral—look! marmalade smeared on the road’s open shoulder—but no— just a cat— 12
Page 1 and 2: AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the
Page 3 and 4: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Trevor Conan Ke
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am honored to be
Page 7 and 8: 8. The Use of Use..................
Page 9: 1. THE SAGE First atmowheels locked
Page 15 and 16: 4. FOUREYED JACKS skewed jacks are
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Page 21 and 22: iii. Enter Usher Furnace fog, sequi
Page 23 and 24: iv. Barophilia leg ions part fortni
Page 25 and 26: ight. Frame masked, entrainment, a
Page 27 and 28: the world widens beyond their blue
Page 29 and 30: for birds and upturned bones, swarm
Page 31 and 32: 3. THE VEIL Something in saliva cal
Page 33 and 34: 1. It’s a joke between gods. Here
Page 35 and 36: utton bob on a thread of silence pa
Page 37 and 38: home (or wherever) awestruck and hu
Page 39 and 40: 1. SNOW REGIME i. The Living Snow b
Page 41 and 42: ii. Nieve Penitente belonging then
Page 43 and 44: iv. Waverbond All, it is all over.
Page 45 and 46: 3. DEPRESSION STORAGE i. Why We Nee
Page 47 and 48: 4. THE TRUTH A harpy dismantled fou
Page 49 and 50: the sad permanence of space the hop
Page 51 and 52: 6. LONG WAIT long weight grey weigh
Page 53 and 54: 7. ANTIPODES why must we oppose our
Page 55 and 56: 8. THE CROSSING a vastness moves ac
Page 57 and 58: 1. EXHAUSTION drags my symmetry dow
Page 59 and 60: fingernail, I took it for omens. Th
Page 61 and 62: 4. BASIC TRAINING the two meld old
Page 63 and 64: 6. THE POSSIBILITIES CLASP AND UNCL
Page 65 and 66: 8. THAT IS ON ITS WAY Cardinals bau
Page 67 and 68: 9. SLURRY Hawks plunged weak atmosp
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the inner, outwardly invisible divi
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11. GEOPHAGY The elephants kneel be
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1. POLLEN ZONES Little Dawn Horse,
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well-lashed eyes the kneeling Bactr
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lead us to forgo the light, neveren
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2. SENDOFF One light scents Plashgo
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4. VACUUM BEHAVIOR A captive starli
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: make us mindful of lineage and al
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NOOCANT 78
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2. GSL how tricky licking the tongu
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sober physicists don’t find giraf
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4. SKINNER’S PIGEONS The most adv
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6. CRYPT AS SECOND HOME i. Zombie e
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7. OCTOBER 2, 19XX The valley was t
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HYDROCANT (II) 90
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6. WORLDMIND Love the world or the
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8. THE CYCLE somewhere in the tub a
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9. SO IT CAME TO PASS A droplet tur
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