Frequency Difference Limen
I volunteered for the realism test, but the tones were coming from the interior. Intervals stirring in their envelopes, dissonances clotting in the midbrain. I’m phase-locked, faded. You have not wholly shaken off the influence of your surroundings they said. When the test ended, I was the same and I was different. Same—different—same—same—different.
Zack Anderson holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His book reviews and critical writings can be found in Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, and the Action Books blog, and his poems have recently appeared in Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, and Denver Quarterly. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, where he serves as a Graduate Editor for The Georgia Review.
