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Bark, Archive, Splinter



   


Where are you from



Spinning an agrestal tale 



Gold and poison, some flight without end, the dress rehearsal, how Europe will perish, imminent destruction, the fatal



          illusion, a murderous rain, microbial warfare, and as for the bibliography 



Land reformation 
























Bark, archive, splinter




So what do you owe these trees



To become, one must, you shall, his obligation, your debt, your fault, his blame, to become, to have to, to be absolutely required to,



          to want to be part of his past, to have this present, and just as your future is
























Bark, archive, splinter




Some mottos for wood



Militarised bark, lichen camouflage. Platoon of



Haustoria



Parallax



Everyday weather of lyric violence
























Bark, archive splinter




Congress of birds



Deictic: To build a site for speech, before the arrival of language data



Reorientation: What do you remember about the earth



A certain British dialect and lexicon reveals the distinction between two bodies and one carcass



In your vitiated memory, a German accent is let loose in Porto






Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York. His poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) is a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. He is also the author of three poetry chapbooks. He has received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, Civitella Ranieri, Community of Writers, and he received his MFA from Brown University. He is a reader for Poetry magazine. Currently, he is also a PhD student in English at Columbia University.