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an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 5 8/21/18 5:01 PM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND GRATITUDE

10,000 thanks to those that helped this work into being: Lori Anderson Moseman, Lynn Behrendt, Steve Cotten, Kathleen Gilligan, Maria Gorrick, Robert Kelly, Maryrose Larkin, Charlotte Mandell, John Bloomberg- Rissman, Michael Ruby and Eileen Tabios and all the friends and editors who published this work early on. 10,000 more thanks to my husband Peter Genovese. Lastly, this book’s body comes into being as a result of Lynne DeSilva-Johnson’s art, sweat and vision at the OS. Thank you, Lynne.

Some of these poems have appeared in the following journals:

Altered Scale, Anthem, the Bangalore Review, Big Bridge, Birds Piled Loosely, Cricket, EOAGH, the Helios Mss, La Vague, Otoliths, the Otter, Poetry Wales, Poets on the Great Recession, Journal of Radical Light, Reality Beach, Shearsman Magazine, Sprung Poems, Tears in the Fence, Truck (guest-edited by Michael Rothenberg), Upstairs at Duroc, Wag’s Revue, Waymark: Voices of the Valley, where is the river: a poetry experiment and word for/word.

The poems “A Table Full of Interest” and “Rub Synonyms for Bad” were translated into Spanish by Eduardo Padilla and appeared respectively in Transtierros and La Presa.

an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 6 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 7 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM CONTENTS STARFISH SLANG - 12 STARFISH TEXT ROOM SERIES - 30 IN A GOLF GALAXY – 56 AN AMNESIA PRAYER - 24 AN AMNESIA PRAYER DEVOTIONAL VODKA - 27 VODKA DEVOTIONAL WING NIGHT QUEENS - 13 WING NIGHT QUEENS THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN - 18 IS BROKEN - THIS MOVIE RUB SYNONYMS FOR BAD - 11 RUB SYNONYMS A SENTENCING PROJECT – 46 MICROTONAL ACCIDENTAL FONT – 38 ACCIDENTAL MICROTONAL I’M A CELEBRITY IN A PLASTIC BAG – 61 BAG I’M A CELEBRITY IN A PLASTIC SHE IS FRAYED AND TURNING BLUE - 22 SHE IS FRAYED INDEMNIFY INFINITY BEYOND LATIN – 41 LATIN INDEMNIFY INFINITY BEYOND CUT THE MORNING OUT OF THIS TEXT – 69 CUT THE MORNING OUT OF THIS SHE WAS AN INVENTED FORM OF LOVE – 48 AN INVENTED FORM OF LOVE SHE WAS STUPID LOVE COUPON MONKEY GAMES – 74 STUPID LOVE HIS DARKEST MATERIALS NEED HER NEEDS – 51 NEED MATERIALS HIS DARKEST DOGTOOTH IN A DREAM VINEYARD, WHITESTONE – 44 WHITESTONE IN A DREAM VINEYARD, DOGTOOTH JOLLY RANCHER BEACH RESORT AND DRUG FARM – 59 RESORT AND DRUG FARM RANCHER BEACH JOLLY THIS IS A CHEEZBURGER DREAM SPEECH DRESS UP – 34 THIS IS A CHEEZBURGER DREAM WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT AND NEW YORK WAS IRISH - 15 WAS WEPT AND NEW YORK WHEN NIETZSCHE THOSE DARLING FEET ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING - 32 FEET ARE NOT THOSE DARLING WHEN A PATTERNED DOOR IS A PROMPT FOR WRITING – 53 WHEN A PATTERNED ANIMATE STRING STRATEGY, APOCRYPHA APOLOGETICS – 65 APOCRYPHA STRING STRATEGY, ANIMATE ATOMICA CROSSES THE WATER WITH A MORPHEUS ACTION FIGURE – 72 WITH A MORPHEUS ACTION CROSSES THE WATER ATOMICA an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 7 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 8

\\\ 8 \\\ | AND LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON 110 -PROCESSANDPOETICSACONVERSATION WITHANNEGORRICK 109 -PROCESSUALNOTE 105 -PILLOWS, PLUSHTOYS, LOVE, CRABMEAT, LOBSTERSHELLS 103 -LANDOFCHAOS 97 -MAXIMUMCIRCUSFRUIT 94 -ACOLLAGIST TAGGED THESKY 91 -SHEISADDICTEDTO ADHESIVETAPE ANDEARTHQUAKES 87 -ELVIS WAS ANELECTRICZOO,HISBURNTBELLY FAT 84 -HERHAIRWAS THECOLOROFACHARCOAL FILTER 80 -ATABLE FILLEDWITHINTEREST 77 -SHELISTENSTO “THEPOWER OFPOUGHKEEPSIE”TAPES INHERMIRACLESUIT™ 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 9 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM PRIMITIVE from GEORGE OPPEN ‘THE POEM’ by out of sleep the poem opens its dazzling whispering hands opens its dazzling whispering an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 9 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 10

\\\ 10 \\\ | 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 11 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM RUB SYNONYMS FOR BAD RUB SYNONYMS Storkcraft or Storm King? Storm or Storkcraft Understones, understories Understones, The wild, the gloss, the woods wild, The the gloss, the or a shantybisque all inked up a shantybisque or The shape of milk a scene knits shape The Kiss the snot otter in a hard hat hat in a hard otter the snot Kiss Nimblewilled Android Pineboy Android Nimblewilled or a lyric entombed by a machine by a lyric entombed or Smirky and then there were fewer were then there and Smirky The numerous definitions of pipes of definitions numerous The Antic dinky animation in a blue sea in a blue animation dinky Antic and then tell a story about your stuff your a story then tell about and Daylight savings, dictionary, dark spores dark dictionary, savings, Daylight Byzantine photobiographies of Nellie Bly Nellie of photobiographies Byzantine Indeed India and Smokesmash Robinson Smokesmash and India Indeed Minks by the hedge, her pink blinker fluid blinker pink her the hedge, by Minks Iconic memory like her limbs falling asleep memory limbs her like Iconic Stylistic devicesStylistic describe sale a stiltsville for Here we have a machine entombed by a lyric by entombed a machine have we Here Libélula dresses, skirt pi Libélula the steaks, dresses, history of Spark notes, speed test, dried firewood for speed driedsale for firewood test, notes, Spark She snorts Xanax, bath salts, Adderall, Vicodin Adderall, salts, bath Xanax, snorts She Tiny chats under tiny umbrellas, skyrim and grey and skyrim umbrellas, tiny under chats Tiny Rash on hands or brittle bone disease on Nylon TV disease Nylon bone on brittle or hands Rash on The skinny girl margarita IS the color of New Jersey New of IS color the margarita girl skinny The Herpes travels to a science center as Brineshrimpdirect as a science center to travels Herpes Voltaire, iridium, slingbox, slime soccer, slipknot slinky slipknot soccer, slime slingbox, iridium, Voltaire, She suffers from brisket syndrome, mechanical suggestion mechanical syndrome, brisket from suffers She An Italian translation in insensibility, water loss, riskmetrics loss, water in insensibility, translation Italian An Atlantis, Atlantic City, Hersey Park, Bermuda, Goodman Bergdorf Park, Hersey City, Atlantic Atlantis, Temperature conversions and tremulous definitions rattle a Texas town Texas a rattle definitions tremulous and conversions Temperature Mistakes were made, there was brainwashing in Avalon on Singapore Airlines Singapore on in Avalon brainwashing was there made, were Mistakes And then Minty the Candy Cane fell down on the ground dancing to his Mintymix his to dancing the ground on down fell Cane the Candy then Minty And This poem was written after my poem “Kinky Vinyl” as it was suggested by Google. by suggested was it as Vinyl” “Kinky poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 11 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 12

\\\ 12 \\\ | STARFISH SLANG in deer antlerin deer velvet Anagram your anatomy tab,Galaxy gallbladder, Galileo, Galapagos algorithms,Radar rockfish, algae algae geek Her hair was inaponytail, dangle sauce Ghosts pout, and death is no parenthesis, Peshat and Derash Gonads and strife, starfish slang,secretedsquirrels, pandas sneezing games,addicting adrenal fatigue #5: Reason Androgen insensitivity syndrome A slanderer’s bible for birds angry The way amineral splits,grenade chords, learnscape agrees with tomatometer, the agrees with moon the The WaterClub, the way she wobbles on aggressive skates illesteva-pipe-kimchi-kool-man-repeller anus,Solar solar animal solar and heliospheric observatory Arson anthem with arsenic on Etruscans the footprints writhings Regalèssia Enraged regeneration Arrears Avoidance program invincibles,Arsenal injuries Medea’s big happy family Whimsicle fuckery, things, Grooveshark dead sanctum not remotely steampunk Robot unicorn attack Regretsy Thiswritten poem was after my poem “A Gardener’s Rearranged Sun” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 13 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM The hotel dream White then pink then pink White White then brown White Threadless thrillistThreadless WING NIGHT QUEENS WING NIGHT Wing nomenclature Wing Diffraction, barcharts Needles and necklaces and Needles Hands and tongue song tongue and Hands Throne of the four winds four of the Throne Handwriting without tears Undrugged and undressed and Undrugged Tungsten-lined underwear Tungsten-lined Stardoll, starfall, Stellarium Stardoll, Scatter plot, scatter analysis scatter plot, Scatter Throughput through a dog’s ear a dog’s through Throughput Sea wing nova, pearl mist theory pearl mist Sea nova, wing From throw pillows to throat cancer throat to pillows throw From Hunger games, Scranton, scaffolding Scranton, games, Hunger Foreshadowings, carmines, carpaccio carmines, Foreshadowings, And then nothing turned itself inside out inside itself turned then nothing And The dream of the burning boy at Wicker Park Wicker at burning boy of the dream The How to get through a timeshare presentation? timeshare a through get to How Carbide wedding bands and their unusual facts their unusual and bands wedding Carbide Not without salt, not what my hands have done have hands my what not salt, without Not Judgement against history, histrionic histamines histrionic history, against Judgement Red mango, the Drawing Center, the Drunk Diet Center, the Drawing Red mango, A white thick toenail, or a white throated sparrow? throated a white or toenail, thick A white Bright skies, black wings, belly button tickling again tickling belly button wings, skies, black Bright High-fructose corn syrup, Hiroshima, high-speed rail Hiroshima, High-fructose syrup, corn Carpet of the sun, of snow, outgassing, clover fractions clover outgassing, snow, Carpet of the sun, of A thousand dreams, a trauma lens, a tantrum’s thin haze a tantrum’s lens, a trauma dreams, A thousand Whip my hair, what are those white things in my throat? in my things those white are what hair, my Whip Fracture and failure ulcerates, of frantic breastfeeding, frantic redhead frantic breastfeeding, frantic of ulcerates, failure and Fracture an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 13 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 14

\\\ 14 \\\ | Neopets, terrorbirds, of summary awoman the An Italian straw hat, tales fracture atlas, fairy Negative negligent foods, calorie embalming, primrose dresses Plenty of fish, touch,please shoes pleaser Field flowfractionation, flung onto snow A colored ion generally indicates an array A color that with letter starts the S,D, H,J, F, or K A continuous lean, acouple of Polish-speaking poor Romanians Even flowers the pickthemselves Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Titania/Titanium: a Wedding” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 15 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Technique Tuesday Technique NEW YORK WAS IRISH WAS NEW YORK lamp, paper, theory paper, lamp, with textual evidence: textual with WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT AND WEPT WHEN NIETZSCHE When will the sun? a crocodileWhen eat When prose accommodates action accommodates prose When Cry for water, a silvered oiled glory oiled a silvered Cry water, for Cheap flights for Chinese New Year New Chinese for flights Cheap Notational velocity, notated clothing notated velocity, Notational in the Year of the Rabbit, reddish brown reddish the Rabbit, of in the Year A comparison of two numbers by division by numbers two of A comparison Evening dresses, everyday food, Eventbrite everyday food, Eventbrite dresses, Evening The execute permission was deniedobject was the permission execute The When a couple breaks up, when cows lie down when cows up, breaks a couple When A synonym perceives itself as warm and caring and warm as itself perceives A synonym It’s always sunny and deductible in Philadelphia deductible and sunny always It’s Reddish urine, reddish brown hair, reddish egret reddish hair, brown reddish Reddish urine, where a wedding is like a jungle filled a jungle candy like with is a wedding where He expects her to chase him, that Gregor Mendel Gregor expects him, that chase to her He when even a single syllable cannot be pronounced when cannot syllable a single even Florence and the Machine flourished in copperplate flourished the Machine and Florence When your computer sleeps and notifications appear notifications sleeps and computer your When When notating pitch, when notated music was invented was music when notated pitch, notating When Traces of your friends fracture around the favored mind the favored friends around fracture your of Traces An atmosphere of bones and notebooks, her Venus bones Venus her notebooks, and bones of atmosphere An or a reasonable facsimile thereof, or a beautiful nightmare a beautiful or facsimile thereof, a reasonable or Bodies found in a hollow tree reveal their motion in water their motion reveal tree Bodies in a hollow found When not to use a hand sanitizer, or go to China, or order fish order China, or to go or sanitizer, use a hand to not When Or a few dollars more, or a woman like you, or a gringo like me like a gringo or you, like a woman or more, dollars Or a few his composition would almost always end with a hero, smoking a hero, with end always almost would composition his Hero or tyrant, law or theory, look or touch, a grass or a tree, a skill or a talent a skill a tree, or or a grass touch, look or theory, or law tyrant, or Hero Sevendust, small animals walk through their definitions, bodies found in a trunk found bodiesArizona in their walk definitions, small through animals Sevendust, an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 15 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 16

\\\ 16 \\\ | What to doat home with light? An experiment with magnets and at eggs fair ascience of use hydrogen,A skilled of bubbles misery the and time Behaviors of gifted the theirand properties of gold Types of turquoise and misuse the of spiritual gifts Chariots as character pale actors, orientalism the of living things A traversal creates pairs of slipping fish River salon, there were slots inher decisions Atonement like amystery vacation rises Drowned wolf swag,auras their wickedly melded together The Swedish coastline swaysthe in summer breeze,septic Pandora’s bracelets, cloud rays virgins, sea Salt glow hives, games, hiddenobject sallow and inappropriate Fat calculators, magic calculators She is aborderless instrument Enlivened by mystery the of rock powders Engadgeted and enchanted, her enlarged heart by his blonde Thingsthat endwiththe letter D What is that thing next to your vessel? blood A thousand clowns and way the each one die will areCherubs and are born they then rented or bought tropics,Collect transient failure, that disease slips the inside pictures Prayer from blood and head the collects arms bargainingCollective for nouns One of Satan’s autobiographies “Ice” is called positional vertigo,Benign an album of competitive advantage Use “homemade firearms”sentence ina Expressibles, extreme couponing Leopard Ice Cream predicts that some reality shows are entirely fake What is prince’s the name inSnow White? She bathes insnakes and snapdragons Paralyzed man implant, shape the of hands Her mouth without tears favor like aparty Trail patterns, manipulations Harm harmonizes with her hair An orca World pulls aSea trainer to her death Aerobic respiration over chaos is away sea, the to acknowledge her partiture 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 17 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM An emergent severity index emergent An Cut an orange into five quarters five into orange an Cut Firearms as a collection of nouns a collection of as Firearms Notational velocity, paper defines defines paper velocity, Notational Beach holidays border on nutrition on border Beach holidays Spiked heels and eggrolls, seedpages eggrolls, and heels Spiked Play with almonds, a bee playing cards bee a playing almonds, with Play Dragonoid chance, de-Cocteau this poem chance, Dragonoid Patterns of arrangement, grain the size of lyric the of size grain arrangement, of Patterns Complete the table for this metabolic equation this metabolic for the table Complete Massage her like burnt oak, build a fire of verbs of oak, a fire build burnt like her Massage Five women wore the same dress, willow wished willow dress, the same wore women Five Threadless milk cake, an apartment in a meadow in a apartment an milk Threadless cake, Wooden hearted poems in full canceled episodes Wooden She speaks like her body temperature is below normal below is speaks bodyShe her like temperature Absent from her own soliloquies, she pleases soliloquies, precisely she own her from Absent Flammability, five dreamings, five fingered death punch death fingered five dreamings, five Flammability, The stars test drive our hearts, wind daylilies into the body hearts, into our daylilies wind drive test stars The Christ recycles minerals, Siamese fighting fish work on memory on work fish fighting Siamese minerals, Christ recycles Dispersion, availability, flour spreads, firewood forecasts accuracyforecasts firewood spreads, flour availability, Dispersion, What is normal saline? A patient climbs the stairs: starfall stratosphere the stairs: climbs saline? A patient normal is What Antecedent consequence, crows fly, a cold front passes, unprocessed items passes, unprocessed a cold front fly, crows consequence, Antecedent This poem was written after my poem “An Envelope Full of Music/A Contingent Event” Event” Contingent Music/A of Full Envelope “An poem my after was poem written This Google. by suggested was as it an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 17 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 18

\\\ 18 \\\ | THIS MOVIE ISBROKEN Birth controlBirth quotes shoes running is –this why we’re fat Long words, lame light jokes periods, I really love my commercial, bank Ireally like you inKorean aesthetics The ethnic of consumption Basement warpwoods, the wilderness, horoscope amuscleI pulled loving you From Prada to Nada someI need prank, cute Ineed hair, Iam Number 4 Idioms, Iditarod, weight ideal the of her identity What’s another word for Sunday? Otterbox cities and desert rubiesodd The in interest,female frostwire infectious diseases, SoupBeautiful The Theater Collective Burnout asynonym lasers: for skin,asouthcloud The hard part of Burgundybeach tanning is bum on TV Stranger Is or beautiful acurse anoun? Is vegan? beer Is Jewish, Banksy gay, white, black, pregnant or contagious? Is Kevjumba aheterosexual wrestler? bear Which is bigger? An example Better? of A tiara of molecular substance Luminous whiskey fish effect, park, wheelworks Luminarc, landscapes marketed by radiant mystery She is branded by luck Her lupus, her Lucky Strikes, her lumineers wrapsSleep lyrically spring Fake and lilies fake chickens calla of Duty zombiesCan Call beat? be Can Calphalon go oven? inthe Her dark inthe milk pearls drink You it can love call or thunder You can pay me back ingum You’re single still Of course lions dance, my bright little star 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 19 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Maplestory She eats a wayback burger a wayback eats She Scorned Woman Hot Sauce Hot Scorned Woman Her eyelashes were sewn on were eyelashes Her Her bones begin bones this sentence Her Personal oxygen bar and oracle and bar oxygen Personal The gold he sought in translation he sought gold The Event mining, the mimic octopus mining, Event Heated driveways exhale in Tokyo driveways Heated Greek letters sewn wrong together letters Greek What is an “I” word to describe to you? word “I” an is What Inordinate ladies origami-ed together ladies origami-ed Inordinate there’s a wolf assassin in Togetherville assassin a wolf there’s Hourglasses and alcoholics and errata and alcoholics and Hourglasses Which elements can expand their octet? expand can elements Which Perfect harmony performed by intruders performed by harmony Perfect Throwing knives and throwing up blood:up and throwing knives Throwing Parts of speech pitchfork sets of attraction attraction sets of speech pitchfork of Parts Splice comma splice, sunlight in miniature sunlight splice, comma Splice This sentence is camouflaged in adaptation is camouflaged This sentence for their exoskeletons to benefit agriculture benefit to their exoskeletons for You find a ticket on the dash and you collide you and on dash the a find ticket You You find yourself in the middle of a frozen lake of a in middlefrozen the yourself find You Spasms splash succulent surgery fusion suction surgery fusion succulent splash Spasms Books nurse scorned timber, beloved as the sky as beloved Books scorned timber, nurse Can you freeze milk? Can you get mono twice? mono get freeze milk? Can you Can you presocial and post-colonial, mockery hybridity post-colonial, and and presocial Darkness symboled in lyric, her sadness splitscreen sadness symboled in lyric, her Darkness Organisms that reproduce asexually have the ability asexually have reproduce that Organisms Splintered adjective, splintered light, splintered angel splintered light, splintered adjective, Splintered Personal Christmas ornaments, personality disordered personality Christmas ornaments, Personal The anatomy of angels must be comprised of plant cells plant of must be comprised angels of anatomy The Tattoos, abortions, ma pêche – How expensive is Plan B? Plan is expensive pêche ma – How abortions, Tattoos, You find yourself in a room, but you forgot the blueberries the forgot you but room, in a yourself find You Is this poem an event that decreases the behavior that precedes it? precedes that decreases the behavior that this poem event an Is Her vocabulary is made of metal and foam – her vocal range was like a farm like was vocal – her range foam metal vocabulary and of made is Her an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 19 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 20

\\\ 20 \\\ | Is aspirin averb? Astronomy? When phone the is an experiment ininternational living Evershade, explosions sky inthe The yellowpages that tell her thisthe is year the rabbitof Throwing insidethinking andcathedral a fault,Thrust thoracic spine, mountain goats, love chords linesThese strain at definition Muscle, fracture, asymptote, angles, exercises, strategies Scattered order adjusts terminology on apricot scatter, obituary obscura Shoes and inaTokyo skin sleep hotel Saturdays in flirt Italian I cast shadows inyour interrupted lyrics You wanted amemory to be If you were meant for me, you then won’t feel athing Or you for of my man? dead the theory yourDo scars wait for Ormakeup god? for monsters? Walk to class at aconstant speed Summary, Sparknotes, text, gavotte Irradiance, ashes on their as TV seen I am your radiant of history sea the I am your radioslave, your repairer, your radiation pressure noise The physics solace,theoriesof entangled their in jumping antagonists,Drug property anxiety, some weirdness “fundamental” termed Some quadrilaterals are rectangles rubies cameSome odd running Some of us never die Insects, questions, birds, things Lyrics with screaming, soaked snoring, throwing up soundsThe in Shrubland:sentencethis and soundcloudsits The sun over a New York’s deciduous forest His breath: amonochromatic light, atemper trap Poems are temporal oscillations Cohesion and coherent light a soundtrack to sincerity, broken white lines boneThe history is of wood 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 21 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM until your ears pop ears your until Get on the Peter Pan bus Pan the Peter Get on (dagger vomit, ear heart) ear vomit, (dagger Cherry the hollow blossom Under the pressure of darkness of thepressure Under Our sorting technologies appall Our sorting technologies Does she make pearls in her shells? in her pearls Does make she Alcohol and ghosts: Spirits-A-Go-Go ghosts: and Alcohol Her oyster ligaments draw and dredge and draw ligaments oyster Her A bivalent chromatin structure marked structure chromatin A bivalent on the unreachable, unreadable calendar unreadable the unreachable, on Suspicion, dishwater, silk, spinning lights silk, spinning dishwater, Suspicion, Our dependency on code and the color blue Our dependency the color code and on a fishbone, a tooth, a pint of blood,of a battery pint tooth, a a a fishbone, Wait for the Royal Caribbean unicorn attack Caribbean unicorn the Royal for Wait Animal spirits are a bestiary the commons are of spirits Animal Her beetroot utopia, a sheltered logic for pigs logic for sheltered a beetroot utopia, Her Oranges, orchids, roses, origami, order, origin order, origami, roses, orchids, Oranges, An intolerable blue gloss on his marvelous arms marvelous his gloss on blue intolerable An Swallow your gum, or swallow the sun or stones or the sun swallow gum, or your Swallow His shoulder blades under spiritual construction spiritual under blades shoulder His Underworld, undertone, underoath, undercovers underoath, undertone, Underworld, Performance art as an intervention in probability intervention an art as Performance They’re swaggerific, capable of swallowing a knife of swallowing capable swaggerific, They’re Endless engagement rings in their enchanted leaning in their enchanted rings engagement Endless Bring your frost emblems and your prehistoric terror terror prehistoric your and emblems frost your Bring Look up in your dream dictionary shutters and sunlight and dictionary dream shutters in your Look up Silvercyst, oatmeal, gold in suspension, osmotic pressure osmotic in suspension, gold oatmeal, Silvercyst, Morning glory, the morning after pill, sickness and ratings and pill, sickness after the morning glory, Morning The entropy of dogs, their uncertainty principal, their fortunetelling gravity fortunetelling their principal, of dogs, uncertainty their entropy The This poem was written after a worksheet of Lynn Behrendt’s first book titles as it was suggested by Google. by suggested was it as titles book first Behrendt’s Lynn of worksheet a after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 21 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 22

\\\ 22 \\\ | SHE ISFRAYED ANDTURNINGBLUE Sugargloss, lipstick jungle, sugarmouth, angelpalace My Little Pony is inruins My tongue hurts to swallow, my is head numb Milky Way migraine, mouth open I heard you paint houses Ihigh-five sinnerswhile and hopDeLoreanthe in Ihope inItalianwhile skiing orwhile sleeping Her carnations become transparent She fatal, can be accurate, sex-linked, her white waters turning into marbles Arousal theory, symbol, sentence, synonym sheetthe music shoulders intheir People are sometimes shattered by clothing their Her vertebral column, intersection the of aSuper Moon with diagonal asilken Barcelona Is sushi healthy? Is strep throat contagious? Sleep shapes itself to her, like pillows shaped like animals She scatters definitions around like birds or black whitesand She’s ablack ops blue valentine, strategy ocean a quilled a blue stumbling uncertain buzz doubtShe into serves your she writes while heart on her arms Insert princess here The truths inside pink a pistolcase, identificationpill She is not asymbolic to link amismanaged object A soft pawsmoon at its surroundings She is not marked as serializable The absurditysalt thissolace in of She’s not and aChristian she doesn’t have an MBA She is staggeringly high as ifshe was asymbol or sacrament inFrancis Bacon crafty,Sew so seriousbusted,so She invented also love, absolute sound, group, abacus the absence, an abandoned reef breast calcifications, broken overcasttheater ina of rain She invented revenge 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 23 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Skin and its causes its and Skin Night wish and sweat and wish Night She is a rhythm dictionary a rhythm is She Cherry echo, Earl Grey tea Cherry Earl Grey echo, Bare legs, bare lymphocytes legs, bare Bare My agnostic swag, Limewire swag, agnostic My Trees should not look like this look like not should Trees Punctuate epitheial keratopathy epitheial Punctuate fingerspelled in lettuce, rice and and salt rice in lettuce, fingerspelled Embered skies haze, photons in Eden photons skies haze, Embered Sheet music sheds leaves, shades bark shades leaves, sheds music Sheet Sonata, starry, moonletters, sky bleach sky moonletters, starry, Sonata, always cold, are burning in allegiant air allegiant in burning are cold, always Smell this jade, minerals imagine a feast imagine minerals this jade, Smell A necklace of neutrons, nonlinear optics nonlinear neutrons, A necklace of Ghost jackals lament in congruent prayer in congruent lament jackals Ghost A convention of signs, slab barriers, silence slab signs, of A convention Outpatient, magnesiums, pale folklore: grey pale folklore: magnesiums, Outpatient, Secret Lenten seasons, seamless seasons, hemispheres Secret Lenten Brain Pop, stencil, shower curtain, Scappoose shower stencil, Pop, Brain Screaming without makeup on Interval Radio Interval on makeup without Screaming Easter, kanji like a dream, like a universe in review a universe like a dream, like kanji Easter, Slogan deflection, petaling, foamflowers, redthorns deflection, foamflowers, petaling,Slogan No hands, dynamite, jar of hearts, rhapsodize, rhyme rhyme hearts, rhapsodize, of jar dynamite, hands, No Trick sizes, she dances like Mussolini, like an organization an like Mussolini, like dances sizes, she Trick Rhetoric, stone sour, slow turning chords like electric like motors chords turning slow sour, stone Rhetoric, Her hands spin around like myth, palm fall trees easily asleep myth, like around spin hands Her Her space holiday, her morning elegance, her fearful her symmetry elegance, morning her holiday, space Her A ringed eruption of the fingers, each happiness ringed by lions ringed happiness each thefingers, of eruption A ringed Her stars, her pleasure, her insistence, her sable dome, her theater her dome, sable her insistence, her pleasure, her stars, Her Exorcisms and certain supplications remembering that meat loves salt loves meat that remembering certain supplications and Exorcisms This poem was written after an anonymous poem I found online online found I poem anonymous an after was poem written This Google by suggested was as it branches” scattered to a servant is not “She an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 23 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 24

\\\ 24 \\\ | AN AMNESIAPRAYER Non-shedding dogsconvert large numbers to scientific notation Enlarged nuchal translucency Inflammatory diary,Latin in American emphasis,latex in Competencies, periphery, decorations disappear solidworks inthe Manswers, death etiquette, favors, party dresses party at Parthenon the Alligator and reactions, facts allergic trees are problem a logic Endless, unsolvable meaning, of acts culture unrelatedSeemingly aggression,thecarpet defines sleep lyric A little cake, dragons and lithium, comets over Island Corn Your serious plans, your prudence, your moisturizer, your champagne and tigers Mix and burn swimwear, juice inthis mixalittle Goose Traffic light,drinks mixed and mixed greens inmySerpents hands lineLess numbering, scars and chords rumorsScheduled dance instadiums These are wordscaught the by sun, in nets of goldenwires Strobist, words containing letters the Z,Q, X,J, and V maze game, VinylScary King, search sheets the for static Approval matrix, are and art joke synonyms? 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\\\ 26 \\\ | This poem might be a transfer mightbe a poem This in particles heatbetween of a substance transient mightbe a poem This madness toward advanced mathematics Themeforest, corrupt water, atelier Is Percocet table? on periodic the Her bones are made of coral, poured out like pasture Hibiscus and hipbone, of parole part these conditions ofpart hemoglobin the that binds oxygen She of is part music the continuum She is patient, she is parachute, she is papering windowpanes the moon new the blossoms and priceless, ruins, pernicious Nothing of value was lost, but you know end the of story: this Skin overnight inantonym What is gesture the and participation activity of inthe searching for aword? In gestures, origins their and distribution, dynamic their language dimension In general, what is meant by texture the of arock or cause the breeze? of asea years,Dog cat years, gerbil years, geology Wrong conclusions autotune her through head awindshield Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Folio #1”as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 27 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Slippy, aster Slippy, Label negate? or DEVOTIONAL VODKA DEVOTIONAL or the Athena-sphere or Spaceship bedding, sparklers Spaceship Recurrence pattern is not valid not is Recurrence pattern Heavy boots and hygiene in space hygiene boots and Heavy taken for wonders on a greasy lake a greasy on wonders taken for Use the word “sullen” in a sentence in “sullen” the word Use Is paranormal activity usually pink? usually activity paranormal Is Snow as a fluid within his epidermis his within a fluid as Snow How greasy ARE those potato chips? ARE those greasy potato How The electromagnets that get you high you get that electromagnets The Metaphors, personification, hyperbole personification, Metaphors, Grease fires are signs for unbeliever the for signs are fires Grease Astound and betray an astral projection an betray and Astound Is it a mistake to write off the Weinsteins? the off write to a mistake it Is Recursive universe, split lips, spider dreams spider lips, split universe, Recursive Asthenosphere, astral images darken reality darken astral images Asthenosphere, A map and a kiss, a mirror and a wristwatch and a mirror a kiss, and A map Favors of the moon, enchanted shooting tips shooting enchanted the moon, of Favors The accumulation of bloodof placepleural in a accumulation The Autism, ovulation, the dehydration zodiac of ovulation, Autism, Are born sinners true to size? Are clams alive? clams true born size? Are sinners to Are A million little pieces of irony in his minor heart minor his in irony of pieces little A million A mistake of fact is a defense to criminal to liability fact a defense is of A mistake Literary elements, personality training, fat radishes fat training, personality Literary elements, Thermidor woodlands, the recurrent laryngealrecurrent woodlands,nerve the Thermidor Labradoodle labelmaster, acacia strain, ginger smitten ginger acacia strain, Labradoodle labelmaster, What about a charity kiss for Mr. Heavenly Brainwash? Heavenly Mr. for kiss a charity about What They are a worksheet, an oracle that materializes in view materializes that oracle an worksheet, a are They The crows fly like outdoor wallpaper, you are similesmall you wallpaper, outdoor fly like crows The Toponyms, mistaking thirst for hunger, prodigal or unfavorable or prodigal hunger, for thirst mistaking Toponyms, For example: a flower, a relational database or a letter of complaint or a letter database relational a a flower, example: For Devote yourself to Smallville and all the squirrels who cared for you for who cared all Smallville the squirrels to and yourself Devote an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 27 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 28

\\\ 28 \\\ | Green thumbs inGreek mythology Rocketfish, rocketdog,science meatgrows lab ina Women’s Eiffel bootie, whisper tacklingtowerboot, dummy high knee wants poem Sometimes this to die Canvas cataracts gloss, inCatalan of dromologytheory The interpretsthe world and reality as a result of velocity Poptropica, dromology, an example of anonelectolyte is… Fandango dawn, joggers, his orbital grim bone Dragon age, draw your own great pile of leaves Gutter, shades of why, are beginnings delicate times Scaffolding,schema,Schematic her Heaven Say “school” Say inGerman. “scrapbook” inSpanish. Say “science” inJapanese card bruised sunlightEasily tricks, and pronouns eyelashesDo grow back? Cluster headaches insmiling rhino theater Sparrowdark, princesspaint, fanfiction It evenheaven hurts Iwalk, when hurts How much airthe is leftin lungs after expiration? Lanterns and leveling machines How doyou say “house of bugs” inSpanish? Mold infestations, mini bots orBalaclava, bear battleship orYANY studded leather hobo Flipping and chipping probables, pitching Ellis Dock on acid Pandora inPottery Barn The lowerright quadrant the of abdomen White goat machine, lower the range of human hearing Thecarbons of our mental status Forms are not self-subsistent substances Forms of poetry, forms of control birth Sometimes form Sometimes for Ihang fun on glide aDorito isSometimes falling an appropriate response 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 29 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM The science of cartography is limited of cartography The science The Easteralphabet with cutouts for your face your for with cutouts The Easteralphabet Nazi zombies have their hands on five red phones red five on their hands have zombies Nazi Pickaxe through those expanded notation worksheets those notation expanded through Pickaxe Ways the world could end, ways to keep pathogens out, ways guys flirt guys ways out, pathogens keep to ways end, could the world Ways Space holiday Japanese gum, her sparkler dims, uses for vinegar and gold and vinegar uses for dims, sparkler gum, her Japanese holiday Space This poem was written after my poem “Folio 2” as it was suggested by Google. suggested was it as 2” “Folio my poem after This poem was written an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 29 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 30

\\\ 30 \\\ | TEXT ROOMSERIES Diagram asentence like aheart Disturbia, diamonds and diazepam distribution the disposal, Body of phosphorus, nanoparticles Fat proof, dysmorphic body disorder, dissatisfaction diode, body’sThe burden, its concentration and its distribution in space model, bolts,Bohr boiling point Giant Girl Arrested, chicken and chatroulette, for cake boss cannibals Dustbowl, ducksong, ballrooms adorned riddles, blackeyed for beguiled, keep beginners, walking, Buggeryville In mermaid the store: her costume of chrome ideas, Tea river wind, whiteuranium Quassy, Quashawam, peacocks pearls, peaches, forSequencing body the boys, quadratic their meats room, the Escape where reacts rice Time machine, clear the button, web the to draw incrowds tessellationstaxidermied In of grid recycled words this and light arcade,In Galileo the awoman mails apuppy lycophyta, whiskey wedding wrestling fields,this in Laundry Lysistratathe women want waterDrinking dreams, drosophila, dross Fugitive and Cadmatic, cadence of the dinosaurs Cadillacs Proust Squid, the Marcel Shell, the pronounblocker Lemonade mouth, Lemierre’s syndrome, marine refrigeration Papotanic multicolor text leveling/wrangling, lemony text My hollow my drum, holiday burns My is heart adolphin, my while hands go on aholocaust vacation MyVarian, MyVaporStore, MyHotComments, MyHolySpirit Moderne mystic boyfriend spacemyth At Motel the owls lights Bowtastic, burn like electric No telephone to heaven, no hands Noble gas configuration burlesque plating,Beliefnet, poisoning 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 31 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Diagram a sentence for me for a sentence Diagram poems cadavered and puttied and poems cadavered The ascending aorta like an asteroid belt asteroid an aorta like ascending The The theology of gout on the Marshall Islands Marshall on the gout The theologyof Cadmium, Fenton’s reaction, butterhead lettuce butterhead reaction, Fenton’s Cadmium, Mysteries in landscapes, flux factories, limestone factories, flux in landscapes, Mysteries Bubble letters are materials that allow heat to go through go to heat allow that materials are letters Bubble Robust analysis dropkicked at the National Prayer Breakfast Prayer the National at dropkicked analysis Robust Aristotle’s classification scheme is an architecture, a a sentence architecture, an is scheme classification Aristotle’s All magic wards in the Gregorian calendar are considered harmful considered are calendar in the Gregorian All wards magic Astromeridian, minor planets, orbital elements, fundamental catalogues fundamental elements, orbital planets, minor Astromeridian, Cameras take pictures of extinct animals and canonized saints most recently luminous recently most saints canonized and extinct animals of take pictures Cameras This poem was written after a list of Cadmium Text Series search terms as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it terms as search Text Series Cadmium of list a after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 31 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 32

\\\ 32 \\\ | NOT AFRAIDOFANYTHING THOSE DARLING FEETARE Everywhere, humanscale freedom chairs are or dead mating inNew York Hummingbirds for Hume were resemblance the of contiguity and causation What is cause the and effect of turning her into a musical? Wars that bloom around our feet forSeeds flatlands,tropicsthe winter in How many are calories sutras inthose anyway? sunflowerOur ina hearts photofieldhulled Bare feet, starlings sun-conjured, and submarines then suddenly appear martyr,The good a black ointment made curedof olives and doves,thistle and hemp Bordeaux and grand smell the of cru, St. Elizabeth’s roses Let’s study sailors BOTH and whales Shotgun shells and Smart Water ofA case your stage stutter stripes, during treatment Paprika of acase shoes, chords, and for you an exploding mango She eats like attics, mysteries, annuals pickupCheesy lines inan annoying orange Charcoal, cheddar tastes cheese like aging These are sugar-frosted prisons wasPyrex no crackpot The conquest of thememory by young Using Tardos the algorithm, by perseverance snail the reached ark the Are we Australian? Autocorrect my dyskinesia I am bored as number the four What ifIwas paid to dream about you? The exquisite interview, impossiblyboth ray and star Indiana by degrees, byzantine Confidentiality,carrots, cloisters, clutterring Willows inablind country, protons ingold, Prometheus as your prehistoric pet Tranced magic, painted caves, her porcelain clothes A storewith said,shade, filled bees thethenand “Oracle, oracle!” 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 33 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM surround a lagoon of bibles of a lagoon surround A fig walked into a bar for a kiss for a bar A fig walked into The city newly sleeved in aluminum newlysleeved city in The aluminum Bless a blurred man and his acid soils his and man a blurred Bless Cormorants in the foundling hospital in the foundling Cormorants Are the Straits of Magellan ever fuchsia? Magellan of the Straits Are Treeman disease, tree marriage, assault ship assault disease, marriage, tree Treeman A complete thematic unit: plants vs. zombies vs. plants unit: thematic A complete Photoautotrophs, a ruby wedding with thorns with wedding a ruby Photoautotrophs, Persistence, persimmons, poppies and cats’ eyes cats’ and poppies persimmons, Persistence, Is the size of Japan the same size as a queen bed? a queen size as the same Japan the size of Is Angel diction in modern usage = “String, string!” in modern diction = “String, usage Angel Polyvore, give me those linen codes before I sleep those me codes linen give before Polyvore, Rift in Roseland, anatomy afterwinters as a symbol afterwinters anatomy Rift in Roseland, Stand an egg on end, bamboo fun, prom bamboozle end, egg on an Stand Strappy guava, strawberry seen TV as guava, on winter panic, Strappy Fisheye bite alert with elastic, fishcharm, strike indicator alert fishcharm, elastic, with bite Fisheye Fetuses in jars that look both presidential and unfinished and look both presidential that in jars Fetuses Charts made of silk galaxy tabs, drawn by a bellows mender a bellows silk by galaxyCharts of made drawn tabs, Remember that both cheerleaders and war criminals start fires war and both cheerleaders that Remember Humans can lick too, corrupted by body temperature, coral reefs coral bodytemperature, by corrupted too, lick can Humans This poem was written after a list of presents Bernadette Mayer wanted for her birthday in 2011 birthday her for wanted Mayer Bernadette presents of list a after was poem written This Google. by suggested was as it an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 33 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 34

\\\ 34 \\\ | SPEECH DRESSUP THIS ISACHEEZBURGERDREAM I’m inyour deep ankle oceans, your opinion journals leaving waxdrippings behind shape inthe of an angel He around sailed Ireland inafridge No collar fishtartanic jigs, My on head your chest caving in My askin shield, needs head my is head agiant egg My hurts head Icough, when my never head stops shedding and peeling You can find inmates in prison forfree at Find-A-Grave Infinity fishing,fight I dragons Don’t you it’s think a little weird that I’ve got to ask you twice? Maybe you ran from bubble shooters mullet inthe latitudes Maybe you’ve inabeautiful Korean booed been drama Wear your awareness bracelets The world in French means “oystervampire” Awkward family photos inachapel of foxes These are your superpowers and you mustknow howthem to use It’s your birthday or your up acts gallbladder or bottoms the of your feet turn yellow or asignificant example of ClarkPetula Sincerity inshards, signature-based counter methods Sugar sunsets and aseparate unfortunate event Instead or on sentences late, of being these crying Itry I throw my hands up air inthe sometimes and turn polar bearswhite Too much summary, much too analysis, much too meaning to paraphrase deluxe the theories, teahen mirage, word vampires I accept rising the as you offered it to me, infiltratedsalmon with Straightening aconcordance balm, of symptoms, her glowdark perfume Well, nut halibut, crusted Batman Restless spoilers, your machine embroidery has been… I love way the you lieon Danger Jesus 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 35 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Defensive phone holster phone Defensive We worship gangs of losers of gangs worship We Released incantations rituals, Blindness blooms like blessings like blooms Blindness Can your baby read this coupon? read baby Can your Ferrets, fingerprints, fever blisters fever fingerprints, Ferrets, Decimals dissolve into poinsettias into Decimals dissolve Bend your arms to look like wings look like to arms Bend your Do you hunt deer in posted places? hunt Do you Are funeral expenses taxAre deductible? Disco lemonade dissolves like meaning like dissolves Disco lemonade The location of wishes in the golden sun golden in the of wishes location The Shattered snooze, light apparently drowns apparently light snooze, Shattered Speculative moths in ruin, I swell and snap snap in ruin, and I swell moths Speculative We are grammar and I approve this message I approve and grammar are We Do you hunt like a girl? Do you hunt Canada? hunt a girl? Do like you hunt Do you I am a proofreading machine with actual with saliva machine a proofreading I am A shot at history with tequila or a fume of sighs fume a of or tequila history with at A shot In this underwater battle: it’s tiger leech tiger vs. crab it’s this battle: underwater In Aunt Jennifer’s tigers and their gorgonzola stare their gorgonzola and tigers Jennifer’s Aunt Puppet lyrics, number one fan, footnote generator footnote fan, one lyrics, number Puppet Dandelion dust in the air like dreaming backwards dreaming like in the air dust Dandelion Was he attacked by tarpon? Did he die near cairns? die near tarpon? Did he by attacked he Was Huckleberry redeemer, gummy bear, lyric angel, god lyric angel, bear, gummy Huckleberry redeemer, My hair makes me look fat, my jaw pops when pops I chew jaw my look fat, me makes hair My A mouse could fit under your sternum…if it was open was it sternum…if your under fit could A mouse My clock has tremors, achievement smells like mildew like smells achievement tremors, has clock My Kansas bleeds like a pair of bleached jeans, black apples black jeans, bleached of a pair like bleeds Kansas I am not a human being, I’ve got Barry Manilow disease Barry got Manilow being, I’ve a human not I am Spirit animal spinal team, piano anatomy, Chinese flowers anatomy, piano team, spinal animal Spirit We just lost the moon where the patellar ligament attaches ligament the patellar where the moon lost just We Look at the way that vehicle is affixed to the word “heaven” word tothe affixed is vehicle that the way Look at The day before disclosure, we’ve managed to eliminate the stars the eliminate to managed we’ve disclosure, before day The You can camp on Montauk, or drive in Florida, or smoke in Hawaii smoke or in Florida, drive or Montauk, on camp can You You are the only exception, and soon there was darkness and deserts and darkness was soon there and exception, the only are You Like a Tiki village or a talking god, a talking muffin, a a talking pumpkin a talking villagetalking god, or Like a Tiki muffin, an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 35 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 36

\\\ 36 \\\ | Blow across back of the ajackknife fishing inthe bank, Blow guild blow araspberry an egg out of its shell Are seasons capitalized? the Are there any trillionaires? Without eyes? Wisteria skin poisoning, daisy straggle What value is asimple stain? I am apineapple inFrench, Iam picky, abasket-shaped October Side ponytails, of pathology the theory goal Barely breathing and shaped like ahouse: signs the that someone is lying characterDetailed list ,dragon song, pheasant feather, tail muscle, Delicate determinism with retina detached fishDeerpants, dead market,Deadman’sthe Bible Map coordinates, arrogant hockey worms The bloody Hürtgen forest, measurements body shapeto determine You enjoy myself, and now you’ve entered into an expression with no value Evanescent embroidery eclipsed You work with chains and you must have high been A slang to measure mass You’re atool to measure humidity, to remove spiral wire You’re atouch overrated, atool shed rental You inmy heart booed been Vulnerability schema, broadcast yourself festival weather Cherry The pressure of watertravertine in lyric, length the ofJell-O disease, tea salad orangeLime won’t tree book fruit bushpole,Limabean bright too for my aquarium Has my light with wasted heat? energy Is my license suspended, are my legssupposed to jiggle? Palace Solitaire, are so we going to kiss or not? Are my ears on straight? Are my pearls real? Are Mormons real? Are mushrooms monsters? also arePrincess poem, mermaids Christian? Your legsshake, your dreams inlove fall with you What is your right legal aftersomeone punches you? 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 37 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM This sentence does not exist doesnot This sentence Acrylic fish Christmas ornaments Acrylic Christmas fish Who was eliminated from the stars? from eliminated was Who Will this sentence ruin or save your life? your save ruin or this sentence Will I contain two errors, and the sequence is not important not the is sequence and errors, two I contain Red ferns worship telepathic Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2007 Châteauneuf-du-Pape telepathic worship Red ferns This sentence contains all words starting with the letter N starting letter with the words all contains This sentence This poem was written after my poem “Inadequate Stovetop Remix” as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it as Remix” Stovetop “Inadequate poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 37 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 38

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\\\ 40 \\\ | The chanterelles have changedtheir address The pleasure of objectification is an invalid ofa funeral cypress hearts, cognates, crooked vultures Avalanche, indigo directions, how wind is adiscography Double poisoning, food structure spaced the of space this Fish an animal, fox frog adog, areptile, fetus aperson Threadless, a foreign circulates object the in blood Turtled to twist, death, smokewagon bejesus the Lamentation an idiom for fitted sheets, fortune cookies, retraction Spirit jailbreak, wasted grace on excess capacity, slanted her spiral curls,how to cross over spirits, light the over Norway Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Microtones” as it was suggested by Google 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 41 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Silica gel dessicant Silica gel A dress made of pollen of made A dress Things are far from okay far from are Things We ingest our definitions our ingest We Add leaves to her love fire love her to leaves Add Allow for doubtful accounts doubtful for Allow Hold your breath in Spanish breath your Hold An algorithm for suffix stripping suffix for algorithm An An algorithm for selecting objects for algorithm An Follow these invented instructions these invented Follow How do you play piano in Japanese? piano play do you How Dead Island, at the disability market the disability at Dead Island, Video iodine Vaseline, snake venom snake iodine Vaseline, Video There are traces of sulfurof in his saliva traces are There INDEMNIFY INFINITY BEYOND LATIN INFINITY BEYOND INDEMNIFY An android eclipse destroyed Brooklyn Brooklyn destroyed eclipse android An An algorithm for the binary split search the binary split for algorithm An Scarlet tactics, Scrabble cheat, scallopedScarlet tactics, cheat, Scrabble She is scolded by the definitions around her around the definitions scolded is by She Hand sanitizer, orange mold, rust, bath salts rust, bath mold, orange sanitizer, Hand An algorithm that computes the kth smallest the kth computes that algorithm An Plug in the electric zoo, but protect the poets protect in the but electricPlug zoo, Arabidopsis, a genomic and transcriptive view transcriptive and a genomic Arabidopsis, The sky is sienna with dust in a polaroid spring in a dust polaroid with is sienna sky The Oh Barcelona, the Carolinas breathe like memory like breathe the Carolinas Barcelona, Oh Definitions on the tongue, on the liver, on the skinon the on liver, the tongue, on the Definitions An allergy haunting An American an this allegiance, is to an origami burlesque maze, substitute berries for wood berries for substitute maze, burlesque origami an What happens when you inject silicone into dogs or babies? dogs or into silicone inject when you happens What an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 41 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 42

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\\\ 44 \\\ | WHITESTONE DOGTOOTH INADREAMVINEYARD, or aimed abowling at ball aclarinet or awoman shop, with aguninnoodle or atulip palisade There’ssomething terribly enthralling aboutthe exercise of influence I want something different and blue eatto Where are to lyrics the her spacesuit? To grow reefs, there has some to following be Gorgonite to glow eyes begin Peeling and eggs skinon the her feet skins us darkerBaby bodies, than Barr air, teeth, hereafter herpes the colorSeizures margins inthe of her notes for school greatAn absence so and spontaneous it is an of evidence light That an nounabstract cannot name afirecracker is idea an abscessed An abundance of Katherines abstracted Traffic lights meanings,theirand light squared Crow tears taste like ginger, are they tranquil ashtrays birds those Vacuole ashfield asylum quotes likeseas verbs Stomata disadvantages, vinyl lettering labels state the of Virginia treatment The closed of commonfractures The crab and its relatives or a bronze clown statue story Bronxville manifesto: where hairspray smells like inlove falling Kite ova, akitten for Hitler, akitten akitten kills, aday calendar Thiskitchen is a thwartto writer’s block What could else you be? In pursuit of teainplain sight, are you aKiwisaver or aKiwispender? The ina space relationship shouldbe about the size poem of a It’s always dark, 1982inthe your facelike ablack ops Ibiza Her interspinous interiors She found that without aspacesuit, it was impossible to cry flush they positiveDo ions their of meaning? What are adog’s inspirational quotes, anyway? Shock arrives inslow motion 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 45 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Landfill: the Movie Landfill: the Winter squash, whales, plush waffles whales, squash, plush Winter Crossfire handbag, evening crosses print crosses evening handbag, Crossfire Stuffed with Love, a Taxidermy Emporium Emporium Taxidermy a with Love, Stuffed Escapist, expendable as an event in the rain event an as expendable Escapist, The deferred ocean or a dollhouse full of text of fullor a dollhouse ocean deferred The where god dropped the paint bucket, WoWhead bucket, the paint god dropped where Licking screen, we are panic prone in the needle park prone panic are we screen, Licking Spinning in snow, Shrinky Dinks, an eel bride bamboozled eel bride Shrinky Dinks, an in snow, Spinning This poem was written after my poem “Dogs in Space – Remix” as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it as Remix” – Space in “Dogs poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 45 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 46

\\\ 46 \\\ | A SENTENCINGPROJECT The romanticismRoman in numerals I wish you’d snore more like afat smoker and drunk Isotopes and fish density, delectation Indian genesis state tree the lyric, of matter at room temperature The slightestwhim-adjusting slippers, neonatal gold When your are shoes dated by violence, French horror out falls of your sleeves Spice, Sermon Remorse Code, absence inthe sleep of photography After an oysterparade, mermaid remains washed up beach the on Her Mercedes aflatginger Confetti lamps, rosemary, varnish ingredients Her and senile delinquent prayers are seamless skin brownOn the plains, sendusing the field configurationvalue is invalid Singularity theorems, is your red new skull agame, a moon god? youkill to The singulartry pluralwill A sun angle calculator or an ornament savior a beautiful lack, anight anoiseless of neglect, patient spider A few dollars combined with aman makes who potions is awolf nightmare drawingsLinen at fingernaillatitudes, or am I just an abbreviated symmetry? 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\\\ 48 \\\ | SHE WAS ANINVENTEDFORMOFLOVE She is more than marathon cowbell half She accountancy sailed through seas bloody She makes saints the to windows, run up belly head to sky the She is acleverbot, an international rose celebration She is capitalized incat-like tread inschool prayerChrist with please cheese Shewith fishespoolfilledEgypts, caramel is infinancial her Her camels, her china, diagrammed her facts She has acontinuous lean toward miracles like acarat of gold She makes casseroles out of war Her hands were by rescued an oracle She was an invented candy of illuminati informed intentions Her salt is gluten sea and free from Montana She can’t tell difference the Caravaggiobetween andcaramelized onions She that knew avarice cannot synchronize with cartoons She was atotem to prodigality and covetousness She word could the use “avarice” inasentence trees the asAnd such also She had an affairwith codfish and ash, with Warsaw cigarette with avocados, appetizers pumped vodka with Caviar dream font, Caviarteria She was with gland born alyric She bought bones her over lacrimal counter the Her fields laundry werewith lamb-redfilled meat She laughed by proxy The halls wereultra simple Her profile roamed The mirrors rattled wore an organza made of oil and oval shaped screams Her Oklahoma had lucky pretty eyes Her space holiday was alike acopper wire lisp Her biceps were interactive both and saved by rock and roll 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 49 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Her jacket is celestial is jacket Her She was made from scratch from made was She Which is better, beer god? or better, is Which She is an orange mild cigarette orange an is She She practices extreme etiquette extreme practices She Poets phone the abyss, reclusive the abyss, phone Poets Her clavichord rivals a crock pot rivals a crock clavichord Her She is an emissary to relic castles emissary an relic is to She She is entirety in its simplest form simplest in its entirety is She She will be remembered for giving in giving for willShe be remembered She has vivid dreams in Port of Spain of in Port dreams vivid has She She points her Claddagh ring at people Claddagh her at ring points She filtering a violent and flammable world flammable and a violent filtering She is clairvoyant, sleeps late and snores and sleeps late clairvoyant, is She Her volatility awaits the treasure market the treasure awaits volatility Her She conducts her relationships in quotes relationships her conducts She Her root cellar is filled with camel spiders filled is cellar camel with root Her “You can build your own malice,” she said said she malice,” own your build can “You Her oracle bone was wrapped in white paper in white wrapped was bone oracle Her Vanished grace, she is a bureau of adjustments of a bureau is she grace, Vanished Her vodka vocabulary over glaciers, stochastic vodka vocabulary over Her She wonders what an orange traffic sign traffic means orange an what wonders She She plays rabbit babysitting and rabbit dress up dress rabbit and babysitting rabbit plays She Her movements echo with ecclesiastic approval ecclesiastic with echo movements Her Chicken meat cheerleading, a voice full money of a voice cheerleading, meat Chicken Her planting instructions involved the Super Bowl the Super involved instructions planting Her She wonders if texturizers are better than relaxers? than better are if texturizers wonders She She has Stockholm syndrome and a stocked pantry a stocked and syndrome Stockholm has She She went to the cemetery where Al Jolson was buried was the cemetery to Al Jolson where went She She was also an oracle of modernism in ancient Rome modernism in ancient of also oracle was an She She sings coffee songs and hangs thermal-lined hangs curtains and songs coffee sings She She was a milk experiment in Maine and an oral history oral an and a milk in Maine was experiment She Her body is carved out of sandwiches and crushed Portland and sandwiches body of carved is Her out She is a confusing summary of no homework and cracked bones cracked and homework no summary of a confusing is She Someone made her out of reclaimed lumber, storm horses, tailhooks horses, storm lumber, reclaimed of out her made Someone There is poverty is behind everypoverty crime and There everybehind crime, fortune The amount of surface runoff increases the amount of light that enters theeye enters that of light amount the increases surfaceof runoff amount The an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 49 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 50

\\\ 50 \\\ | Keith Richards is her essay inhuman understanding mystery triptych,Reed awhorehouse quintet She is inanondividing state, alaboratory manual Her viability replicates definitions Grass grows over her vibrating concrete Her clover aclown necklaces fish, clovergrows grasses in her She is cloud agnostic She wantswith life ameaningful new architecture filled clamshellCoalesce, buckets, narratology She formed “I the Am Here” coalition The mummies in her coat arethey’reso warm, on fire She is an aquamarine herbicide Tiger informally, orange month oil or blue jay egg Her address is abird park Nest myth, fabric, symbol, birdhouse She is an orienting response When an freely object it falls is an imperfect actor on stage the She is an adaptation inbats Her verbs are metaphors for freedom Hers is an aspen-feathered dress She orchestrates Ravel like an Olympic horse The velvetgrip of her vein idiom, she is likestructured cilia Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Her Lilac Ovals Roam” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 51 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM NEED HER NEEDS NEED HER MATERIALS HIS DARKEST Chicken heads, be heads, quiet Chicken Tetrahedron wolfram Mathworld wolfram Tetrahedron Side lengths her sparrowed Japans sparrowed her lengths Side Rust remover, crab grass preventer grass crab remover, Rust Does in the encyclopedia? god exist Swim school, tiger beetles, tiger school, leechking Swim Polyphonic prayer, a slim optical slot optical a slim prayer, Polyphonic This is a metadescription of Maryland of metadescription is a This They are dressed ideally for a revolution a for ideally dressed are They Tell all the truth but slant it with analysis with it slant all the truth but Tell Anemones hosting and licking superfruit licking and hosting Anemones An ideological oddity annoyed by forever by ideologicalAn annoyed oddity Her mouth had subtitles, Sweeneybloomed subtitles, had mouth Her This is a cherrymanifesto is a blacklist This blossom Lattice field lyrics, liturgical as a little Vassar as a little lyrics, liturgical field Lattice Seahorses say goodbye in different languages in different goodbye Seahorses say The islets of Langerhans or Stiletto Spy School Spy Stiletto or of Langerhans islets The Acoustic taboo summary, a fault tolerant book tolerant a fault taboo summary, Acoustic Agnostic and theistic Satanism, theists gone wild gone theists Satanism, theistic and Agnostic In a milliyet, what is the meaning of a tossed salad? of the meaning is what a milliyet, In Their cowgirl lives for grammar, their list-buried lives list-buried their grammar, for lives cowgirl Their Cheetah Girls, say all theCheetah order cheeses say in alphabetical Girls, North American birds telegram their touring caravans their touring telegram birds American North A madrigal a secular like suspended god in a sunbeam Apiaries, morphlings, moisture meter, instant whitening instant meter, moisture morphlings, Apiaries, Morning slang in translation’s ginger, an omission paradise omission an ginger, in translation’s slang Morning Chinese zodiac, chisel-couture, a violet and lemon Navy wedding Navy lemon and a violet Chinese zodiac, chisel-couture, She’s got a touch of frost called “panic,” and is a total waste of makeup of waste a total is and called frost “panic,” of a touch got She’s Those seen dancing were followed by footnotes, abbreviated kingdoms abbreviated footnotes, by followed were Those seen dancing Fangraph hands lean wisely on great forces like parasites and supernovas and parasites like forces great on wisely lean hands Fangraph His marriage was new every morning, at the mercy of his money cologne money his the of new mercy was every marriage at His morning, The inspirational quotes in infomercials are like dancers adjusting their slippers their adjusting dancers like are in infomercials quotes inspirational The an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 51 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 52

\\\ 52 \\\ | everything started to fall apart to started fall +her etcetera creamseverything emblems +everyone’s got arandom engine A chemist was given four unidentifiedwishes to strengthen amixture: studentA chemistry explains hell as an artist +alot of fizz Are rocks gay? Mistletoe cancer, piano wire The physics secrets,theof is world going to end on Saturday? Turns out world the has on acrush integral the of solace sorrow lanterns,Chinese electronic cigarettes, symphonies dead What wear dothey inMadagascar? What doSituationists wear? Perfection makes her thinner look sentence souls inthis and mutismCollect selective their Shell variables you tease with applescript Fun, fun fun, Yeah, yeah yeah, An arrangement to defraud definitionsorrow ina walkthrough A crowd inamicrowave, where snow can to lead apples and ivy Are mermaids funny or or brittle? evil Are you afraid of adark where lap giraffes are real? in henna seduction chemical imageOur of invisible, the chemise the she wore at her execution bubbleChew gumas winners the go by cheap intheir perfumes Slope intercepts form inpleated sheets Steal shade, slick for deals SleepNoMore, Sleet helmet What is pronunciation the of “sleeping sickness?” Thiswritten poem was after my poem “HisIsosceles Tell-All” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 53 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Closing costs Closing Antipsychotics She is a striping machine a striping is She Situational Chinese foods Situational IS A PROMPT FOR WRITING IS A PROMPT WHEN A PATTERNED DOOR PATTERNED WHEN A Science splashed on a magazine on Sciencesplashed Out come the wolves of grammar of the wolves come Out What not to put in the septic tank put to not What The diagonalization of a latex dress of a latex diagonalization The Sunrise over the memory of Google the memory of over Sunrise Does the creator play typing games? typing play Does the creator Probability, her filters were not enabled not were filters her Probability, A character trait informed by limestone by informed trait A character The frayed sunlight is too fond of of books toofond is sunlight The frayed What are the properties of real numbers? real of the properties are What The Mapplethorpe super-class disappears super-class Mapplethorpe The Buttermilk channels buttercream frosting buttercream channels Buttermilk Magnetic examples marked with an asterisk an with marked examples Magnetic Why do colors separate in chromatography? separate do colors Why Logic is the clay with which we were created were which we with Logic the clay is September allows structure to turn into light into turn to structure allows September Pictures of Jesus with bedbugs resized to frame to resized bedbugs with Jesus of Pictures Flagstone discipline, Fiestaware in the Fidelity Museum in the Fidelity Fiestaware discipline, Flagstone Diamond shine lip gloss just outside of the human heart the human of outside gloss just lip shine Diamond surrounded by hibernating lyrics, mapped but not known not but lyrics, mapped hibernating by surrounded Sequences segmentation, an unoptimized reading of the spine of reading unoptimized an Sequencessegmentation, Separation anxiety in dogs, separate colors when doing laundry when doing colors in dogs, separate anxiety Separation How do you say “but I’m a better cheerleader than you” in Spanish? you” than cheerleader a better I’m “but say do you How What is your strategy for spotting the difference between sky sports? sky between the difference spotting for strategy your is What an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 53 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 54

\\\ 54 \\\ | Giants reminisce over you A bomb shelter divorce, stars hang night inthe like housewives 30yearsOver combined inacne experience Idiomatic preaching for children Married like old machines, created romantic images Tamer animals, butter roses Lives like apostrophes, as ifpixels married each liked They likeother a quiz Her him skin reviews Charitable and piteous, her empress name Sheet music may have difficulty showing emotion Analyze adaffodil murder Add Jell-O and say something adorable to your boyfriend Was someone just kissing me? and died he neverHe had agirlfriend uglythat was so everybody He weather the was 70degrees, all inheaven hinge,Confidence intervals symbols like dollarsburn Imagine swimming inheaps of narrative and me he then kissed The inverted forest of her imperious condescension, her immortality He invented lying He invented clothes the dryer He invented question the mark Malignancy legends, astrange vesperbuild cake book, How long have amother to Ibeen myself? Property has greatest the entropy, weeks massages like bad Tenderness is atheorem proof inCupid’s cocoon overgrown, overweight, overgrazing When surface lieson abody africtionless The heartbeat is irreversible, a holy in experience New Jersey An introverted intuition, irreducibly diagonally dominant Imperialism is an impossible game, as are domestications An unidentified flyingbodies, chicken,plant objects, parts improvise A granule photosphere inthe is sizeof the uselessness A theme inalong about story ared toy 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 55 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Terminology Sizzle tans the size of Japan the size of tans Sizzle Similarity colonies Similarity attachment Disorganized Red wings Buttonhole Blood clot stem Brain bedding Glass Rain Rice paper Bone marrow polish Nail sorrow Infant Underbite crying Unexplained Ultra nostalgia liquid flavoring nostalgia liquid Ultra Where is my refund in heaven? refund my is Where Refraction, variability, abundance Refraction, variability, The worms have eaten the puppies the eaten have worms The exorcisms and certain supplications and exorcisms singing for England like sick animals sick like England for singing Ocean octaves, yam haze, solidworks haze, yam Ocean octaves, Let’s have some expendable wrong fun wrong expendable some have Let’s Masses of stars along uniform book lengths uniform along stars of Masses Of each particular thing ask what it is in itself is it particularOf each what ask thing Worm apocalypse, family poems are futile devices poems apocalypse, are family Worm A bushmaster reels in gold from the Chinese zodiac from in gold reels A bushmaster In which quadrilateral are the diagonals always congruent? always the diagonals are which quadrilateral In Threadless cups of tea, an investigation into magic numbers magic into an investigation tea, of cups Threadless Identical fatigue mechanisms like the 1994 biography of Calvin Klein of the 1994 biography like mechanisms fatigue Identical This poem was written after my poem “Folio #23” as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it #23” as “Folio poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 55 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 56

\\\ 56 \\\ | IN AGOLFGALAXY Arteries drawnArteries on outside, the vines bursting her behind knees A legand foot pop out of body the She is rich with coupons Is gold pink? new the Mineral theater, next bubble Cypress, thimble, thong A gold dress threaded summary Thrush market, an air-conditioned bible,rubyeyes You’re abrave little toaster Imageshack or false? true trilemma: He is acartoon of imperialism Can you impersonate Clark Gable or an improvised explosive device? I tell you I’m not going and I’m out of gum She hibernates inweight loss What are symptoms the of New York? Charmed and alone, she by sleeps number She to conquerors was asanctuary bell Thetolls for dummies Girls like retrievers or prisms or playwrights Her lips as ghost shore cherries, weeds where her name was ahand-me-down A sailor moon inSaigon A sailfin bracelet gramophoneand a in Malta Her sarcophagus for sandals traded salt skeletonGold leaves, Leaves Gold Sasaki Absence rests atemplate inlyrics, for galore Andy Goldsworthy and leaf holes his oak Can you holly identify inconservatories and vineyards? hydrangea wine cluster Nova tree movie Scotia or a His hand asymbol or a One sideoxidized, one sidesilver The oblivion on Oregonbeaches: table periodic the Theor moon ocean floor?the on 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 57 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM A garden of collectibles of A garden But for me it was Tuesday was it me for But She is raven with thank-yous with raven is She There were martinis of meaning of martinis were There Thoughts of woods and supermarkets woods and of Thoughts Euclidean geometry, maximum entropy maximum geometry, Euclidean The king of limbs in the key of awesome of key in the of limbs The king Dreams seek verbs, optics, flannel plains flannel seek optics, verbs, Dreams This poem might have an alternate ending an alternate have This poem might Your words are losing weight for no reason no for weight losing are words Your Butcher’s broom and butane and Bulbapedia and butane and broom Butcher’s Ozone funhouse, the galaxytail of a ghetto Eden a ghetto the galaxytail funhouse, of Ozone Go out and make disciples and then make dinner then make and disciples make and Go out Wandermoon, wanderful, wandering tongue rash tongue wandering wanderful, Wandermoon, BTW - This is a would-you-go-out-with-me poem BTWwould-you-go-out-with-me is a - This Polka Dot Bikini Girl, I swear our veins are infinite are veins our I swear Bikini Girl, Dot Polka Rainbow blindness without you, see-through lyrics you, without blindness Rainbow The Mondays in our hearts, our souls cough up stars up cough our hearts,souls our in Mondays The In the golden age of piracy, how was “pirate” spelled? “pirate” was how piracy, of age the golden In Light-o-rama, the blinking battery light on our evening our on light battery the blinking Light-o-rama, This salad is hilarious and is not taxable in Pennsylvania in taxable not is and This saladis hilarious Flush, slope tectonics off Louisiana, slave slush Himalayan slush slave Louisiana, off tectonics slope Flush, Metals panic an alchemist. 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\\\ 58 \\\ | You painted yourself and inlyrics parked like ajackass A plague aloftwith symbols Wiles wash over wisdom school Christ’s Twitter button Fencibles, fever analysis, shredders, anesthesia floorsea is The constantly toa shrinking foam motel When of Iwami sea the clothed is fully Superunknown, ablue storm searches of book forgetfulness the for its fish I’m never going to leave bed this I never felt awoundwiththis light filled That never happened to Jesus A store without aname, how to bring light into abasement That lightcan undergo interferenceevidence is of brilliance Thiswritten poem was after the George Oppen poem“Gold on Oak Leaves” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 59 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Jesus Jersey Shore it’s meaning is edible is meaning it’s JOLLY RANCHER BEACH RANCHER BEACH JOLLY RESORT AND DRUG FARM RESORT Her goodness was concave goodness was Her Jews killedJews in the Holocaust How many ounces in a jigger? ounces many How Idlebrain at the Idle Hands Bar Hands the Idle at Idlebrain Jupiter juice, a tornado of fabric of a tornado juice, Jupiter I’d like to find a doll I can marry I a doll can find to like I’d Jellyfish play cards in Crap Town in Crap cards play Jellyfish Blindness tests, object permanence tests, Blindness The rain covers bees with its interest bees with covers rain The The formidable joy in a June owl city June in a joy formidable The Green jelly obeys the cow god, literally god, obeys jelly the cow Green The Dresden Dolls sing a break-up song break-up a sing Dresden Dolls The Addicting games, a doll house full text house a doll of games, Addicting Severally liable, a jointless bone in the body bone a jointless Severally liable, A levitation trick, Hollywood fused trick, Hollywood war with A levitation A doll in a jar, a bento box, skinwind dropout skinwind box, a bento in a jar, A doll Summarize the garden, instant noodles in French instant the garden, Summarize The Opal of the Month Club, jelly on this hot god hot on this jelly Club, Month of The Opalthe Create a graph that involves cream cheese frosting cream involves that a graph Create Sentences and synonyms, farmed crumbs, Jellicent crumbs, farmed synonyms, and Sentences How do you say “cake” in Arabic? Or “cypress box?” Or “cypress in Arabic? “cake” say do you How Gaussian random variables, then continue these random variables these random then continue variables, random Gaussian The soap burns with her mistakes, tiny ghosts in dresses Lilly Pulitzer ghosts tiny her mistakes, burns with The soap Sequential things in a Google search dropdown box under the letter J: the letter under box Sequential a Google in things dropdown search Found objects traded on the silk road, translucent and triangle-shaped and translucent the objects silk traded road, on Found How is energy gathered or created? The light seems to bleedan aquarium to in seems light The created? or energy is gathered How In a domestic partnership, nonpolar covalent bonds form a jitney elopement a jitney form bonds covalent nonpolar partnership, a domestic In Name one object in space that starts with the letter K and connotes devotion and desire and devotion connotes K and the starts letter with object that in space one Name an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 59 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 60

\\\ 60 \\\ | Is arabbit king the of truly ghosts? Brother velvet revolver, bronze alloy, arabid banana For sleeping, those a few dollars all more A baconalia on shaped aheart- beach What ifJuliet furniture threw offbalcony?the AshgateBoundless said, “Where can Iget ahot tub, you braille playboy?” brokenBlack tea beads, orange, brides inagnostic complicity ranbewilderment through his veins like acaffeine project At Burst Belly the Animal Hospital His beloved Sleep, pet bulged Belgium with healing properties Backstop netting, his and her hair, language his body bedtime Little Miss Obvious breathes on like kisses this glass, Blue eyes, black wings, bright skies Megalomaniac philosopher-king tourism libel Bleach poisons lidocaine love alyric, leprosy Clearly, she was injected with praying mantis DNA Birdsong, fill out please this injured spouse form Marrowed harmonies, he is her bone daddy Jonquils tan guitars, their blonde their Venus Helen dresses She’s got hair jazz inbloom, icily regular but splendidly null Icicle blue paint shimmers almost without color Greypurple, she is red with morale, with and ivory indigo iris Even coral the dreams of you Super bass grenades roll into deep fireworks Edible arrangement rings, Medusa the stage reproduces Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Jollity Jointly” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 61 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM I’M A CELEBRITY IN A PLASTIC BAG IN A PLASTIC I’m bored or on a boat on or bored I’m Ghost a source volume volume a source Ghost in this absence tablature in this absence Kiss a neverwinter Pawn Star a neverwinter Pawn Kiss Lovers for the Store Absence: and can the liver repair itself? repair the liver can and Start a sentence with Neverland with a sentence Start Corks, asparagus, lemons, cancer lemons, asparagus, Corks, Placebo, without you I’m nothing I’m you without Placebo, Nothing and everything and lyrics red Nothing I’m not your boyfriend or your skin your boyfriend or your not I’m Do fish have ears and can hear? theycan and ears have Do fish The Absence Band is not really sincere not is Absence Band The What weighs nothing and can be can seen? and nothing weighs What The Absolut Vodka diet and hip hop abs hop Vodka hip and diet Absolut The All I can think about is getting you home home you getting is All think I can about I want to do nothing and call something it and do nothing to I want Now that I’m finally in Madrid, I can think I Madrid, can in finally I’m that Now You deserve nothing and I hope you get less get you I hope deserve and nothing You I’m not your burn notice, your toxic holiday toxic your notice, burn your not I’m Since I’m the best, I walk extra with gestures I’m Since Where do reindeer live and can they fly? can really and live do reindeer Where Pope or Mussolini, make it or break it, funny or die or funny it, break or it make Mussolini, or Pope Enzymes are proteins and can therefore be deactivated therefore can and proteins are Enzymes Forgive your enemies because it annoys them so much annoys because it enemies your Forgive Town and country, macaroni and cheese, Turks and Caicos and Turks cheese, and macaroni country, and Town Thunder without lightening is like a prescribedmedication a is like lightening without Thunder Chase pavement, buckle up or eat glass, wake up or eat sushi eat or up glass, wake eat or up buckle Chase pavement, or, I’m not going to write you a love song and I’m not in a plastic bag in a plastic not I’m and song a love you write to going not I’m or, Smells that repel mosquitos, cats that looks like Hitler, cows that can jump can that cows Hitler, looks like that cats mosquitos, repel that Smells Wonder Woman was captured repeatedly by some really sad optical poems sad really optical some by repeatedly captured was Woman Wonder I embellish events because I love you not knowing why or even from where from even or why knowing not you because I love events I embellish Since I’m not your everything, I’ve decided be in a Christmas play to the air everything, your I’ve not I’m Since an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 61 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 62

\\\ 62 \\\ | Flutter flat minor of inaflood paper, floral, fluent Falsework, flourishbedding Toothpicks, lovelox, asluice, extreme adeadly A parabolic arch with aflag and a X red without warning, with burning collapse in17minutes will A bridge may which to raised prevent be access Canticle, cantata, Korean gummy bears A bomb brushed red inhis trustworthy screaming A better life, ablue abrief whale, history, abicultural experience Gestures migrate across continents Birds like definition act Mathmaticious minds make industrial smog This is my favorite highway You’re my loveprize You’re me with killing snails She in flirts French aboutthe value of coins What is something you wear that with starts an M? How explain retrograde the didCopernicus motion of planets? the Give me an example of an investigative project inchemistry mustObjects smart, borrowed be rainbows Name an activity with atest you must pass before doing Her bones somnolence surf Can’t you you’re see fading? Negative staph induck incascade, blood Clouded leopard: noctilucent and acrylic I’mBecause vampire, the that’s why throughI fall your clouds We are abox of crayons You are atourist, abomb, abone marrow match I am adollar and sign you are anumber rumors,Lake trout, boat propellers What is the longest name of alake in Massachusetts? Why center the does of an LEDlight yellow? look Jesus is inspiration the for my weight medical loss thator bees live ground inthe 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 63 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM She is third eye blind third is She You’re the truth, I’m not the truth, I’m You’re Razor ice, cinder glacier cinder Razor ice, Serum enchanted weapons Serum enchanted I’m something, stupid DO me stupid something, I’m The sky is a body of water and of water is a sky body The You’re a virgin who can’t drive who a virgin can’t You’re or rather grammar, root words root grammar, rather or Risperdal, risottoteria, fawnball risottoteria, Risperdal, All of the gin joints in the world the ginAll joints of a radical experiment in empathy a radicalexperiment Sedative hypnotics and dentistry and hypnotics Sedative Of a river in Italian, in river idiom in river in Italian, Of a river You’re a crucial aspect synchrony of You’re from a radio engine to a photon wing a photon to a radio engine from You’re a cantaloupe, a cinema cigarette a cinema a cantaloupe, You’re You’re a criminal as long as you’re mine you’re as a criminal long as You’re In the relationship house, a cloudgarden house, the relationship In Runetotem, a rose is a ruined record is a rose red Runetotem, You’re a crucifixion narrative, a grief factory narrative, a crucifixion You’re I am old cowhand anteater organizing junkie organizing anteater cowhand old I am I’m somewhere where I don’t know where I am where know I don’t where somewhere I’m The Trentonian grass, chaste in trillionaire skins in trillionaire chaste grass, Trentonian The The rock says “Happy Birthday” in salt structure in Birthday” salt “Happy rock says The A radio is also a walking man with predictive guts also predictive A radio is with a walking man An open ended ocean, an obscure signal, an aviary signal, an obscure ended ocean, open An an Roasting remedies, welcome to my heart in French my to welcome remedies, Roasting Minor dramatic, a flask containing molecules of gas molecules containing a flask dramatic, Minor Intercept the occipital nerve, heart the sound fourth the occipital Intercept Flagella, watch it backwards: your season be to blessed your backwards: it watch Flagella, Valiance, teleportation, devastation, winged dominance winged devastation, teleportation, Valiance, Romanticism toward the third of May, his charm of the week of charm his May, of the third toward Romanticism What happens to Caesar after the third offering of the crown? ofthe offering the third Caesar after to happens What You’re a storm that fell through my life, the sound of animals fighting animals of the sound life, my through fell that a storm You’re What’s something smart to say about math? Or post on FB? Or say to a girl? to FB? Or say Or post on math? about say to smart something What’s an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 63 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 64

\\\ 64 \\\ | Marigolds burrow inoil I’m made of wax,Larry. What are you made of? I’m on aboat coming home resilience gem, intangible assets Your cogdisguise, cogsuit, arpeggiator Your computer guy is low on memory Pre-cooked shrimp, chemical emeralds Some prefer nettles and preach out Christ of envy You’re something lord the made to sound like water Press my “like” button Sometimes, you’re like an invisible phenomenon You’re like AT&T the people, or Santa Clause on Prozac Your demon your accusers, fear’s font, mango pockets dry,is so can’t felt, be red is so My facewas hacked Automatic love letters smeared on veins Icing smeared teeth, black eyeliner, ink, font smudged A valentine bullet, diploid pleadings, cretaceous You’re no slogan, you’re far from an empire at peace Old Spice gold spitfire, lettuce spin kittens dry or An insignificantperson largeat a wedding The small orange of yourback, ornamentaltreesgrow out of office desks Thiswritten poem was afterLynn Behrendt’s poem “ I’m Nothing and Can Therefore Never be Locked Up or Even Captured Really” asit was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 65 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Apartment therapy Apartment Enchant, clutch, skirt clutch, Enchant, Who unfollowed me? unfollowed Who ANIMATE STRING THEORY, ANIMATE Galapagos, Pitcairn, Faroe Pitcairn, Galapagos, APOCRYPHA APOLOGETICS APOCRYPHA from the museum of last night last of the museum from Each bird sings another grammar another sings Each bird How do you change his background? his change do you How Who came up with the word Cubism? the word with up came Who On your dead shores the sand is warm is the sand dead shores On your Who was the god of white nights vodka? nights white the god of was Who Cannibals in charity locations die of hate die of locations Cannibals in charity Hyacinthus withstands play-it-again sports play-it-again withstands Hyacinthus When did Apollonius study conic sections? conic study did Apollonius When Is the ankh the origin of electromagnetism? the ankh the of origin Is Magazines blown across a light orange beach orange a light across blown Magazines Islands dream of glaciers shaped like the world like glaciers shaped of dream Islands The demise of decision, desperate light switches light desperate of decision, demiseThe Name some band names from Greek mythology Greek from names band some Name Whispers gathered behind me like the color blue the color like behind me gathered Whispers An example branched into the pulmonary circuit the pulmonary into branched example An Mercy, mistranslation, an impossible ghost protocol ghost impossible an mistranslation, Mercy, Your dad was a hipster and your dog was worth it too it worth dog was your and dad a hipster was Your The meaning of dimes and disco sticks and discretion and sticks discoand of dimes meaning The Ultrasound uncoiled, an index of appalling strangeness appalling of index an uncoiled, Ultrasound silence seenDimly speak trees receive the ocean to and The aorta exits from which chamber of the heartagain? of the chamber which aortafrom exits The Study Island, study the word to show yourself approved yourself show to the word study Island, Study The 1913 Armory Show, and the most annoying orange annoying most and the Armory 1913 The Show, A hemlock dress washed up on the beach of a tumid river a tumid the beach of on up washed A hemlock dress Her ankles bones are good examples of kissing, enthesopathy kissing, of good examples are ankles bones Her Who was eliminated? Got kicked off? Voted in? Got cancer? in? Got Voted off? kicked Got eliminated? was Who A fire escape to other planets, your balcony, your patio, your porch your patio, your balcony, your planets, other to escape A fire an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 65 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 66

\\\ 66 \\\ | Molecules that absorb light are mothers called Study matrimonial advertisements and lack their of reluctance A snow motto-ed with brown poem eyes shadowsDo wear When shoes? darkness is slick, precipitous unbalanced,Balanced, ragged Life’s clustering regressions freezer inthe Put adictionary Water must reach out to become amachine of hail and sleep A basket is of oppressed strawberries by solvents Topercentagethe find of an element inacompound, forgivenesspractice unemployment,Solipsism, frictional hair frizzy Remove doubt all from eggs really bad these The uncanny civilization,fragment a of an analysis Fractured, death is not aparenthesis, astopwatch Crows are hollow with theater Kandinsky,Chalksilk, blue the guys fruit Superman was fabricated out of an invalid pattern completely bare The composition of one twoor isometries Constellations, compass test, composition the of matter scaringkids kids facesstream,Dirty scary A makeup artist makes death like looks roses Her dresses flyground, the to close too sometimes fall jars and ofCollapsed bedazzled, clay sublime Frail heartbeats and pianos to addicted duration How to save afraying life Dream of frost, afat radish, frogs and peaches Thrift shop tiny terriers, flowers pray, silver patterns like fireflies color, nose Dog economy candy, French inIndochina rule Gratuitous space battles nomads the pink robots changed of history the New York Baby names battle and bacteria In mosquito the cloak tabernacle, abloodmoon An eggplant study tool innames, islands, goddesses Am I atext bunny? Functional medicine, sugar pulling and sugar blowing, combat theatrical wavelength, orbitals, websockets The texture of Gregorian chant suggeststhat meanings are determined by 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 67 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM The bitter tea of General Yen of teaGeneral bitter The Can prophets make mistakes? make Can prophets Each day on an average moon: average an on Each day rubies, bullets, histoire des arts histoire bullets, rubies, Airfoil, antler, purevolume eras purevolume antler, Airfoil, The bite sized book of bible trivia bible sizedof book bite The The constant key of bone marrow of keybone constant The a punishing happiness, a fiver game a fiver happiness, a punishing Broom exponents, compare injuries compare exponents, Broom Empathetic helpful benevolent nature benevolent helpful Empathetic and how hope begs for disappointment disappointment begs hope for how and Umbrella, Australia, an iceberg owl city owl iceberg an Australia, Umbrella, A satyr hemp tycoon in primrose tweed in primrose tycoon hemp A satyr Oscillatoria overthruster dies with sleep dies with overthruster Oscillatoria The best thing I ever ate? Pronunciation ate? I The best thing ever The moss won’t start, lawn mow the truth mow start, lawn won’t moss The How to tie a tie and lose weight in America lose tie weight a tie to and How Cat daddy, the decapitated chicken analysis chicken the decapitated daddy, Cat In the how-to hospital, his unilateral neglect unilateral his hospital, the how-to In Recycling, not spraying, this puncture device this puncture spraying, Recycling, not Toothpaste Trojan, the meaning in migraines the meaning Trojan, Toothpaste Hell followed the little girl into her happinesses her girl into the little followed Hell The tip of my tongue hurts. My noseMy is swollen hurts. tongue my of The tip Rhyme therapy, sandman, snowman, stars, roses stars, snowman, sandman, therapy, Rhyme Tulip junkie, onion root, atomic force microscopy force atomic root, onion junkie, Tulip Spelling adheres to the handsomest drowned man drowned the handsomest to adheres Spelling Particulars, healing masks, an abuse of the new moon of abuse an masks, healing Particulars, Stars that harden on impact, widows riddled days widows with impact, on harden that Stars Foamy the Squirrel runs through the hand fan museum fan the hand runs through the Squirrel Foamy Whispers adhered to her and also reeked of indifference of also reeked and her to adhered Whispers I was carried away Pocahaunted by the human centipede the human by Pocahaunted carriedI was away The pink parts of Saturn’s moons are the color of rhubarb of color the are moons of Saturn’s pink parts The Larry Leadfoot, Daniel Pearl, John the Baptist, Holofernes the Baptist, John Larry Pearl, Leadfoot, Daniel An aerophone is an instrument that causes what to vibrate? to what causes that instrument an is aerophone An Cloud scapula under this writing, a bed intruded by bedevilments a bed this writing, under intruded by scapula Cloud MidgetWOW in scarlet, postsynaptic grief, inhibited reactive attachment disorder attachment reactive grief, inhibited postsynaptic in scarlet, MidgetWOW an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 67 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 68

\\\ 68 \\\ | You are stable, thermally folded up into game adrinking Evacuate Legos the all What Ireally meant to say was: what my does name mean? What percent of pronoun which doyou wear? is television earth is the when Rain You are neutral and so soluble both so Delicious heights of nox copper and ravenettes the Dumbbell dehiscence borrowedEverything seems and empty infieldflannels Mumbai lights remake rage to like look escapism The newspaper constellation:that crimes involveboth desire and vending Who is goddess the of What science? is anormal exactly heart? Islamorada, Moonpie the Sonata inher sarcomaShe poses study dress His are palms sweaty with sturgeon facts His blindness is amap of world the She blushes like ablueprint A font bathed indoubt, aman hanged himself on aFrench easel Sunglasses shape inthe of pyramids the leavesOctober inafrequent cover everything and shimmering caffeine Thiswritten poem was after the poem “Study” byLynn Behrendt as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 69 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM OUT OF THIS TEXT OUT OF CUT THE MORNING CUT THE He is a theme park accident park a theme is He A heron landing team event team landing A heron Circle proofs in latex for free for in latex proofs Circle A heron is eating her goldfish her eating is A heron Ostrich Ostringstream Ostracism Ostrich feathers Ostream fern Ostrich Ostrich meat factsOstrich Ostracization Tiger tears describe Bach’s grief describe tears Bach’s Tiger Crooked vultures and their thangs and vultures Crooked Netherwing tabard, presence, eggs presence, Netherwing tabard, Nuns wade, a habit of nunslaughter of a habit wade, Nuns Prove to me your triangles are similar triangles are your me to Prove He’s a metacritic, a metro bunny jackass bunny a metacritic, a metro He’s Washing up on her mind’s common beach: common mind’s her on up Washing I saw you tearing a paper towel from the roll from towel a paper tearing you I saw A Madonna in isolation, her heart full her wind of in isolation, A Madonna He sleeps in wire shade, a theory a deadman shade, sleeps in wire of He suspensory ligaments, horseshoe crabs, horseradish crabs, horseshoe suspensory ligaments, Sinking into your tea of tears, into hasty paperbacks hasty into tears, tea of your into Sinking Nest wine, non-verbal cues, the No Neck Blues Band Blues Neck cues, the No non-verbal wine, Nest Sorghum, sortilegio, say out loud each sediment by name by sediment each loud out say sortilegio, Sorghum, Bald orchids, the Middle Ages, rosary robbed, human ash human rosary robbed, the Ages, Middle Bald orchids, Enthralled, the virgin and child sculpture where godreigns where sculpture child the and virgin Enthralled, Sheenisms in maroon, a reunion in terror, condensed matter condensed in terror, a reunion in maroon, Sheenisms What is the mood of your mouth? Picoseconds, microseconds Picoseconds, mouth? the mood is your of What The end of citation, swim in air tonight, in heated butterflied swing butterflied heated in tonight, air swim in of citation, end The The killing bachelor, the mentalist mechanic, the mermaid of Venice of mermaid the mechanic, mentalist the The killing bachelor, How sun tolerant are your hostas, anyway? Your flowers, your ferns? your flowers, Your anyway? hostas, your are tolerant sun How How many lipsticks will measure the distance between the sun and the earth? between and the sun the distance will measure lipsticks many How

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\\\ 70 \\\ | smile forsmile haters, the and smack it like aHonda In magnesium magnetic moments Barsac is color the of foie an gras, antique numbered appellation She is amaroon severe macaw discographyErase inmarble white walls as milk Is of part what? the Is known also as? Stern diamonds warn His her dolls, shape trucks, the of history His thoughts are not our thoughts, march they on Smarter than meaning, her hair his needs Japans Walk through heaven the vines on Jersey the Shore Two-minded clothing lost under ashattered sun Mandalorian goddess, true Flea SmartyPigs Who is god’s puppeteer? An Auschwitz lullaby? pelvicThe bonesand leg of asnake Oceansize last the wrongs as remnants of achurch Foam blushings, ornaments crime night mouths, intheir with bees Dogs of fractions train yards He is amarathon of numbers Astrodentistry, projection, astral computational turbulent flows stars the Catalog in1924 Two elliptical estimate galaxies themselves An asteroid sizeof the an aspirin crashed and burned nothing Is an octopus avegetable? Is an aster aperennial? sky the Crush into three rooms, there are plants arranged inthree rows Ghost celebrities come inthrees In her heels, beaver an bunny, beef ether medicine inyellow and black What is synonym the that outshone sun? the Phases and fabrics inmanifest summary his nightmares,She neglected noiseless and patient Is anatural disaster anoun? also restsA castle inits curtains Let’s go storm bowling Where is snot exactly stored? A snot splatter guidefor Neopets A snowmobile has velocity initial the of what exactly? He’s a Kaddish dove smoking cigars, rum-cured amelancholia door to three other rooms Mushroom farm, barrel harness 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 71 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Artic skimmer, frost broken bells broken frost Artic skimmer, Claes Oldenberg has a poem has Claes shoes in his Oldenberg On her majesty’s secret service secret globes snow majesty’s On her Her highness, spyness, fatness in roseate ringtones in roseate fatness spyness, highness, Her He is a noun project foreshadowed with invalidism with foreshadowed project a noun is He The voodoo rhythms of psychobilly and sick things sick and psychobilly of voodoo The rhythms Her individualism was atomized into an aluminum colored dust colored aluminum an into atomized was individualism Her This poem written after my poem “In Tearooms, in the Metro” – as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it – as Metro” the in Tearooms, “In poem my after poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 71 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 72

\\\ 72 \\\ | A MORPHEUSACTION FIGURE ATOMICA CROSSESTHEWATER WITH An alarm clockAn that alarm bacon cooks actually Philadelphia’s sunny disintegration this in phrase, sleep strappedThe disease friendly to his attachments An elm and three sisters, mixed with transit pollen An example of anonelectrolyte event with humanIgloos sewn summary The ragewritten fromthe in and to on an envelope Hungrynowhere, under awrecking moon ball Wax butterfliescutestwiththe personalities watches Madagascar penguins caper inaChristmas She wears her depression mascara and Mandarin oranges, my prophet chunders The heart’scurriculum A panicked atheism insalmon damask Molarity, bankrupted commas His holiness’s petroleum is limited Almost B, barely C Tajikistan stupidly, amirror for Perseus, acatalyst A mason is about his secrets all to expose Insert pearls into an oracle, and turn then alemon into abattery into insect Dolphin vodka, select infused When melody isand ripe inseason Melted chocolate makes you thinner Medicine got it wrong about dies memory when multiplyingwhen exponents on Instapaper A widow’s her tears walk, diverted on multiple slopes Her mansion than mine is taller A flock of dimes, a mansard roof vampire weekend inbutterFalse fried then freezing, Hunt for mushrooms inamorphine that galaxy like looks New Jersey Ghostman, frost, monkeywrestle Montreal The butchersays, “It’s anime snacktime!” 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 73 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Android tourists sleep tourists Android Salt means help or luck or help means Salt Damn you, autocorrect you, Damn A dictionary sea burial at Damsel lace, ladder rungs lace, Damsel “Arsonists get allget the girls” “Arsonists Her headache was high in fat high was in fat headache Her A parade of oyster and theories and oyster of A parade Program logic rattles and gnarls and logic rattles Program Hexidecimal Hawaiian Hinduism Hawaiian Hexidecimal Saran wrap weight loss for Wufniks for loss weight wrap Saran A man-eating and stock-picking robot stock-picking and A man-eating Abandon the heart as if it were a florist were the if it heart as Abandon Tanning luminosity in Pythagoreanism luminosity Tanning George Bataille, sonically speaking, Bataille, said George throwing up, falling asleep, losing weight losing falling asleep, up, throwing Swallow death in a sentence, its ice green lava ice green its a sentence, in death Swallow Use this poem to generate random events like events random this poem generate to Use Stop breathing, you are a fortune cookie cliché cookie cliché a fortune are you breathing, Stop Say a novena to make darkness fall, to kiss girls kiss fall, to darkness make to a novena Say A memory of light, or a chest to pin a medal on pin to a chest or light, A memory of Biblebirds, a relative’s DNA like an omen machine omen an like DNA a relative’s Biblebirds, Random number generator, ransom note generator note ransom generator, number Random Plum oil, a jam colored shawl when the sun turns blue turns when thesun shawl colored a jam oil, Plum A mouth full of gold, many of his attributes are not valid not are attributes his of many full gold, of A mouth He is comprised of a repeating self, his best sarcastic gospel best his sarcastic self, a repeating of comprised is He Bacon oracle bioavailability, kiss midnight from mouth to ear to mouth from midnight kiss bioavailability, oracle Bacon Hybridize that sonata. Note that her realm is closed but can be can visited closed is realm but her that Note sonata. that Hybridize I should be in French, where the days are divided by a darkroom discretion a darkroom divided by are the days where be in French, I should He was finally alone with his digital dream materials, his dudeness, his divine shadow divine his dudeness, his materials, digital his dream with finally was alone He This poem was written after my poem “Lady Catfish” as it was suggested by Google. suggested was it as Catfish” “Lady poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 73 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 74

\\\ 74 \\\ | STUPID LOVE COUPONMONKEYGAMES Keep your hands to yourself –knitting battle is the half Antler velvet, hot this of tub sheet music full must destroyed be An archive of feelings, Japan at dawn Polka dot cadaver, prank an anarchist Never with aporcupine polka Never poke your uncle with afork Make out adrink of imperfect world: this an icemerchant’s dream An arranged marriage of hypertrophic scars Smells like magician anervous to me on Nerval’sDocumentary lobster apocryphal A Novemberwith holes, a filled novena to sit still In corn, trait the for tall Chocolate, cobblestone, cement Her skin was paved ingold and indifference on conjunctivitis the express Invert property shark, dissent vernacular It’s apronunciation polka or an absence of grass Vocaloid shimmer, an instinct toward language leaf shower, aleather bed Days fadeinto his hearing aids Slush Fahrenheit, Appaloosa zip Cochise It’s chilly Kelvin inthe Hotel toSpeak me inbathtub Latin even asentenceCarpenter bees, an can be invasive species Or aCarpathian nightmare poem Or acarpenter is building arectangular room A chance to miss your cracks of sunlight Whole New Mind: aprincess boutique incalming colors Pinterest, eye symptoms, cake box Black diceslip like champagne or carnations Pigman Pharmaceuticals, pinkblack, pinballs Nail lacquer, not just coffee, nobody wondergirls 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 75 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM pistol in his hands in his pistol a plastic ark for sale for ark a plastic She is a portrait of devices of a portrait is She Inkheart, ink my whole body whole Inkheart, ink my What causes neon tetra disease? tetra neon causes What Her anxiety Yeats at my grammar my at Yeats anxiety Her Pentatonic world voices like moths like voices world Pentatonic The inkwhite where lambs are born are lambs where inkwhite The Buffalo hump black mark back back bow mark black hump Buffalo Moonesque, Pisces, pillow, pill addict pill pillow, Pisces, Moonesque, Mothballs, lemmings, juicy fruit lemmings, gum Mothballs, Pine embryo, her veins’ poppy dresses poppy veins’ her embryo, Pine An opaque object like a war or a heart or a war object like opaque An Shell broken, pain plus dogs, logic gate plus pain broken, Shell Junk milk, she’s got a sunburn for living for a sunburn got milk, she’s Junk Radio heart with a roof that doesn’t leak doesn’t Radio that a roof heart with She scissors and swans in simplest forms in simplest swans and scissors She A period of consequences and organizing and A period consequences of and possibly I like the thrill of pony shows the thrill I like pony possibly of and A pen warmed up in hell, a pen in the in hell, dryerA pen up warmed Disappointment is free of invisible prepositions invisible free of is Disappointment With a pocket full of shells, a pinch of salt and a and salt of a pinch a pocket full shells, of With Lack of sleep, empathy, color, vitamin D, thereof D, vitamin color, empathy, sleep, Lack of She nicknames her pancakes and then eats them then eats and pancakes her nicknames She Played his digeridoo in an illuminated Singapore illuminated digeridoo his in an Played An opal hearted country like a shell, shale wound shale hearted opal a shell, countryAn like She calculates her love of shoes with regret trimmings regret shoes with of love her calculates She What is the volume of a cylinder? The value of my car? of a cylinder? of value The the volume is What A perfectly balanced roulette wheel and a pearl earring wheel and A perfectly balanced roulette What do you do when you are bored at a royal wedding? a royal at bored are do when you do you What With a permit you can drive and a pair of steel toed boots steel of a pair and drive can a permit you With Czar pimp, his mouth stuffed with pronouns and promise and pronouns with stuffed mouth his pimp, Czar Sorrow formed a river, she wore YouTube around her neck her around YouTube wore she a river, formed Sorrow What did we invent? What did we wear? What did we eat? did we What wear? did we What invent? did we What When the novocaine wears off and Nova Scotia lobster season is over is season lobster Scotia Nova and off wears the novocaine When When is the Snowager asleep in her jelly world? Her soup kitchen hole? kitchen soup Her world? jelly in her asleep the Snowager is When Mapping the thorax, an empress in golden woodlands, her printed palace printed woodlands, her in golden empress an the thorax, Mapping that erases writing, which writes in space, which removes scratches from cars from scratches which removes in space, erases which writes writing, that an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 75 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 76

\\\ 76 \\\ | Red dustRed showing all Her velvet eyes,glitter vase, her very inher veins In heaven, no skin,no and shoes her voice is no longer of money full Rabbit dynamite rhymes.the That tied rug room together A horse my rustled jimmies at Clovis the three dollar theatre Voidchorus, clowns that caper insawdust rings An apparent intention fate inthe of an individual With abottle of Jack before Ibrush my teeth Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Craze, Novel, Pink” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 77 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM SHE LISTENS TO TO SHE LISTENS ™ MIRACLESUIT IN HER The Jesus Bible Tankini Bible Jesus The Things invented by accident: by accident: invented Things I miss the things hidden in money the things I miss I love thee like a home burial poem thee a home like I love this coming weekend in Manhattan weekend this coming Can you really summarize the rain? summarize really Can you Were we created by extraterrestrials? by created we Were Indigo, cosine, derivative, crimp, shine crimp, derivative, cosine, Indigo, The Buddha bass tab on shiny toy guns toy shiny on Buddha tab bass The Hopping arctic compass parabola, Batman parabola, compass arctic Hopping “THE POWER OF POUGHKEEPSIE” TAPES TAPES OF POUGHKEEPSIE” “THE POWER Burning plasma, burning mouth syndrome mouth burning plasma, Burning Were we just wasting broken-hearted time? broken-hearted wasting just we Were Light travels like an unwelcome discography unwelcome an like travels Light Lyrics yell for weed control, ignorant devices ignorant weed control, for yell Lyrics The end of days is a structure we can measure we can structure is a of days end The He wants to liberate the earth from civilization the earth from liberate to wants He Dashmask, sickraven, the caterpillar’s soft steps soft the caterpillar’s sickraven, Dashmask, Were we meant to eat meat together in a past life? in a past together meat eat to meant we Were Haiku hunter, how to be alone with your grammar your with be to alone how hunter, Haiku We are not eaten by yaks, not amused and not alone not and amused yaks, not by eaten not are We Killing flies like you, the candles throw in their music in their throw candles the you, flies like Killing space, the number 3, Central Park, the sky, the ocean, the sky, Central 3, Park, the number space, She is miserable and microwave safe and miracle-ized and safe microwave and miserable is She This is not meant to be a theorystatement or a factual meant not is This Thistleheads and wrecks, even god is deprived of place of godis deprived even wrecks, and Thistleheads How Annandale went out and learned to sweep the floor sweep learned to and out went Annandale How Neolithic revolution, we vote on a hypothesis of tomorrow of a hypothesis on vote we revolution, Neolithic Fat thistles, wild with romantic swag in a republic of suffering of in a republic swag thistles, wild romantic with Fat Acquainted, abbreviated, bees walk through Galileo’s yellow bible yellow bees Galileo’s walk through abbreviated, Acquainted, Shark tank parishioners linger in New Zealand hands folded with in New linger tank parishioners Shark Like body fat, matter, what we’ve lost, temperature, acres, audience acres, temperature, lost, we’ve what matter, Like body fat, an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 77 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 78

\\\ 78 \\\ | The appearance of an organism is its consensus Buffoonery oxidizes to America Cruises Carnival Bridesmaids carry Unsaid, brides forget inslow motion The rose foughtthe warmthbetween of other suns Insolence pixelated, water cycle, weekend the never diesstreaming The diaper bagalso is on fire We live inan invented America Incandescent, monochromatic, ohmic Is light the from alightbulb coherent? The polarizedsky is Shell scripts indarkness strategy Brightness brushes bedrooms, coastal sky the burns after reading Self-immolation as aphotographic protest Taproots among beauties, Nike astriping married machine Newspapers were once ships, commonplacing At there mall the was to aséance the find least random number Verses like dangerous branches and least the penetrating form of radiation you should know about inEnglish last this syllable offurled recorded time The Styrofoambegan to melt away, saintsand said “whoa” question the All marks to started sing ofArmies artists and alphabets their An unknown orchestra mortal Is it really to unlawful duplicate key? this Hope is inorganic, simple, so our idleness Cut breath fantasy gamer Limitless walkthrough zombie Sasquatch annihilation Outrageous games drinking involving otters Smooth orange synonyms are your horses Thewind contains additional commands,willows The door smiles at her bonesamnesia Two dots scream at each other Watermark, wishwound riverThe book, beginsscaffolding, like a its staging Starless, is place this the for writer the to handwrite name their Sticky lip rice stilettos, gloss, stinkbugs stillborn, We are not statistically significant 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 79 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Out of sleeping pills, we’re deductible we’re pills, sleeping of Out Guests trade silence in the facial flex dictionaryGuests She’s a sentimentality virgin in her landlocked hours landlocked her virgin in a sentimentality She’s Language lives on moats, the wild Venezuela office message office the wild Venezuela moats, on lives Language This poem was written after “The Poem” by George Oppen as it was suggested by Google. suggested was it Oppen as George by Poem” after“The was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 79 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 80

\\\ 80 \\\ | A TABLE FILLEDWITHINTEREST A charred glyph and no answers of afixed asset of aDNA molecule of acharmed wife of most nonmetallic solids a characteristic It’s of aseason mutations A spiral or galaxy arock hen Islam blinks its eyes,burns fat, builds muscle beatingboilsThe becomesheart andgreater insize barometricThe pressure falls She is pro-life curious Synonyms rabidly devote themselves to meaning Archimedes schnapps, wolf spiders, grannies What form is body the of archaebacteria? What is evolved the form of Archen? What is verb the form of architect? Her artwork is an argument with corporate poetry Jerseylicious or write an autistic haiku A bright Boise room new called Envy’s minor reflection, brother velvet Contagion and aftershockpaintballs ina few more Damnation’s prayer for bill tax ahigher Frame Bracketology, abracelet made from her teeth Dandy acres untours pronunciation or aclothing of king summary the moment e m a r f 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 81 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Make cake my Is a lovebird a parrot? a lovebird Is Fatima of the Camillas of Fatima Autopsy cladding hoax cladding Autopsy An arts council as a pet? as arts council An Thistle bear captured wow Thistle bear captured He’s a cult monster rancher monster a cult He’s Mineral necessities pinch me pinch necessities Mineral How do radial work? engines How Italian balloons imagine a sky balloons imagine Italian Mythology mosaics the moon mosaics Mythology She sleeps in birch bark sheets bark sleeps in birch She Yarn garden, a fabric of topsoil of a fabric garden, Yarn She even Nair-ed the couch legs the couch even Nair-ed She A yard above the flexbirds knee, above A yard A dead magazine plastic machine plastic A dead magazine His hypothesis roars with ecology with roars hypothesis His Double vision action photography vision Double A radiant tea house tunnel syndrome tunnel house tea A radiant Swing a painting toward stable matchings stable toward a painting Swing Thoughtbot makes a fable with amber amber eyes with a fable makes Thoughtbot A chair in German is still a chair, or a word or still German in is a chair, A chair A yellow grammar in a year which is correct which is in a year grammar A yellow Bleached characters smeared with kingdoms with smeared characters Bleached Postcolonial reason through a monstrous lens a monstrous through reason Postcolonial A glorymarrow bewilderment, starfield, bone Bigshot, bassbone, breathing mode, bristle disc bristle mode, breathing bassbone, Bigshot, Brain tumor styles, a stream braided like a prom like braided styles, stream a tumor Brain When children look like the elderly, or cupcakes or the elderly, look like children When Boulevards made of paper, a nightmare facsimile a nightmare paper, of made Boulevards Love Teflon, laugh rift, a bare-knuckled bucket of does bucket bare-knuckled rift, a laugh Teflon, Love A snack bar where the snozberries snozberries like where taste bar A snack Bees, bitterness, a blasphemy so heartfelt that its wings broke wings its that so heartfelt a blasphemy Bees, bitterness, Bipolar with big sharp pointy teeth, she takes bites out of shade of out takes bites teeth, she pointy sharp big with Bipolar A chair is still a chair, a chair is not a chair, a chair is just a chair just is a chair a chair, not is a chair still is a chair, A chair Cloudruins, out of it, the sun like a tattoo, on the side of the road the side of on a tattoo, like the sun it, of out Cloudruins, Air in the shape of a hand, or a high heel on the Scotch Tape Plains Tape the Scotch a high on heel or a hand, of in the shape Air an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 81 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 82

\\\ 82 \\\ | Invert grammar, an apostrophe addiction With its hat about its ears, and an emphasis on super the fan chessRagas, games, Gregorian chants Your life imitates aguitar, anotational velocity The color behind depends left what? on Nonattainment areas Which light is least effective in photosynthesis? A continuous integration of thematic units Killing swans by an asphalt assembly Her gossip throatlatched, parts to arally nowhere Right you now want everything is wrong into eggs reallyAnodize bad achievement High performance butterfly valves acidlullabye Scalextric Take out, pigeon, carrier carrot cream oil Oxalic acid, orangette, silverbeet lookupReverse her charms, her Chardonnays Is that Charles Bronson on phone? the She heard my voice inFrench and thought “I anyone” could be Vergemoon, transmigration the of her tequila socks ourDial listen yourself, library our riotous on defects altar the of cold the war An example of animal folklore, apond is acholangiogram aseed, Crescendo cellular flowerless plants,catapult a for charades A mirror giraffe mineral Amniotic aura diamonds steer heads A camel’s tongue, acat’s lily, gums, acalla acardinal colorthe of aconstruction zone, alicense plate acheetah, from Texas The is a heart blue warning sign The warning star is an indication powderthe mineral of polarbear’s ina fur The color of an opaque ina object recreational light of acat’sChemistry meow, she has on acrush an electron Liquor lab names, she throws up gifts themed The diameter of a chord Chopinby Cardamom sober, ababy name teardrop tin coordinating conjunction Her life improved dramatically inyour hands, dude forLook her daytime inthe with aflashlight atLook ajunkyard, for look light fields 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 83 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM then splatter, giggle then splatter, Remove dead traces of scribblenauts dead traces of Remove Unblock the winter, and her semi-charmed laying machine laying semi-charmed her and thewinter, Unblock A thank you note that you may believe was written in a meadow of crabs of in a meadow believe written was may you that note you A thank This poem was written after my poem “Julian’s Idyll” as it was suggested byGoogle. suggested was it as Idyll” “Julian’s poem my after was poem written This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 83 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 84

\\\ 84 \\\ | OF ACHARCOAL FILTER HER HAIRWAS THECOLOR Goodbyes stuck into her skin, her life began with cycle indifference Windows normally donothing, windows are not like a parade Start asentence with “a religion of doors” Scorpion star clusters fell like sand, laid out like starfish Snowflakes stripes perfect in fell Satellites event and twinkle Black holes organize into apattern If you up look tonight, stars the wear no makeup Make up some statistics about on them spot the Peat, willows, eels Startle it A witch, ababy, adog, acat, agoat, ahorse Her anxiety is an acoustic apparatus The idea of heaven reflex be adisease couldeasily Start asentence with “a and easily” ballroom startles go from there sentenceThis loves you Stop smoking, since steroid drinking, start hormones are lipids Sliced bread and strangling isn’t an option Sableye, antelope helicopter, goggles, herbicide Spell “rehypothocation” on an empty stage, without an audience Rehab is arehypothesis, dinnerdress her alittle Her red pyramids name wind like the aradio She made atemple out of tires for Cat the Goddess rehearsesAmerica by references bamboozled has ofAmerica anectar been baseball She trees the for takes granted, has crushes with Croatian subtitles sheShe has thinks control over shapes all of water Hope embraced her mistakes We are theater inthe of chance now She replaces water pool the with pee 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 85 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM a kinetic analysis Are teeth also a fruit?Are She’s a limelight kisser a limelight She’s There are plenty of fish of plenty are There She was a heavy cream bride cream a heavy was She She was afflicted by by meaning afflicted was She Are tanning beds poisonous? tanning Are Four lights on and no children no and on lights Four There are trap doors among us among doors trap are There Are trampolines tax deductible? trampolines Are Headless mice sing in handcuffs mice sing Headless Biblefire, virulent virulent bacteriophage Biblefire, Are travel agents really worth it? worth really agents travel Are There is frictionher addresses in There Her Helvetica heart, coral-boned Helvetica Her Fevers, rashes, thumb deformities thumb rashes, Fevers, What is your compatibility to day? to compatibility your is What Laughter assaults American grains American assaults Laughter Trees mistaken for transitional fossils transitional for mistaken Trees What are the lyrics to these the lyrics to fireworks? are What Astigmatism and the astrology of beer the astrology of and Astigmatism Clancyness, his cereal never gets soggy gets never Clancyness, cereal his A desert asymmetry, an astronaut farmer astronaut an A desert asymmetry, Instead happily explore the attractive toys the attractive explore happily Instead Who played Hitler in a high school musical? Hitler played Who An astronomical unit is really an asteroid belt asteroid an really is unit astronomical An Bliss blizzard, blink tiger, melon light, pig barber pig light, melon tiger, blink blizzard, Bliss Pressure gradient, sliverswell, cyclone amusement cyclone sliverswell, gradient, Pressure Electrical significance, shock stretches her character her Electricalstretches shock significance, The invention of pronunciation, a sonata in D minor a sonata pronunciation, of invention The Ribbon fractures, inflatable boats, injuries from coughing from injuries boats, inflatable fractures, Ribbon Nautical twilight, small wars smuggled like smart chargers smart like smuggled small twilight, wars Nautical There are worse things I could have purchased on my iPhone my on purchased have I could things worse are There Even after 65 days in a sugarcult, his rhymes are not appealing not are rhymes his sugarcult, in a 65 days after Even And boom goes the dynamite family guy in the marriage hearse in the marriage guy family boom goes theAnd dynamite There are two kinds of people, three parties to a check, and and severalisotopes check, to a partiesthree of people, kinds two are There Cultivate wheat, puppeteer death clips, there is evidence of love in the urine love evidence is of there clips, death puppeteer wheat, Cultivate an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 85 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 86

\\\ 86 \\\ | Bring your own bright star dropletsOil oscillate, circadian rhythms, chatclash Silver breaks easily, tea,our easy entangling electric breath motionOn inertial on arotating sphere The stars are projectors, dustmoon, inerrancy Horses review, incalm three months of Thai horror Tramadol collapse ghost crush, thrust, No threshold, sebaceous pigmented, navigated, narrative A weather interpolated halo light Her immunity was invisible, her income elastic Thiswritten poem was after my poem“Can-Am Series” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 87 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM HIS BURNT BELLY FAT BELLY HIS BURNT What were their origins? were What Time became stale stunts with Time ELVIS WAS AN ELECTRIC ZOO, AN ELECTRIC WAS ELVIS How do I capitalize the moon? do I capitalize How Black sunburned purple yellow purple sunburned Black Angulate tortoises, blistered lips blistered tortoises, Angulate My name in math, in Nougatine in math, name My Nouvelle vague, a bias generator a bias vague, Nouvelle Only one state has no McDonalds no has state one Only Peace bruised in the sin dictionaryPeace Only one state has no national park national no has state one Only Matter is classified as a pair of boots as a pair classified is Matter How many calories are in New York? in New calories are many How Moss enchanted these language tombs these language enchanted Moss The day passed like a chapter summary chapter passed a like day The What was their outlook on the afterlife? on their outlook was What Gods jewelry visits wear their museum on Could my saucepans bring on menopause? on bring saucepans Could my And since I am dead I can take off my headmy take dead off I can I am since And How can I keep from singing? Or slapping? singing? from I keep can How How can I be taller? Or make more money? I be can taller? more Or make How Birds mimic the sympathetic nervous system mimic the sympathetic Birds There are online stuttering activities in maroon activities in stuttering online are There Indifference burned and smelled like antifreeze smelled like and burned Indifference The tongue offers sugar money, a sienna-ed sun a sienna-ed money, sugar offers tongue The Oracle ointment, Pentacost, Orientalizing periods Orientalizing Pentacost, ointment, Oracle Nightingales weep on the consequence of meaning of the consequence on weep Nightingales Morale-grey, cyber-November is the color of noodles of the color is cyber-November Morale-grey, How clean is my house? How could my hair grow faster? grow hair my could How house? my is clean How And since you can’t escape me, do I ever cross your mind? your cross do I ever escape me, can’t you since And Her fact practice, shards of vinyl spirits donate their bones donate spirits vinyl of fact shards practice, Her This shocking story, shattered and and soggy swimmings virgin with shattered story, shocking This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 87 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 88

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\\\ 90 \\\ | The structure of falling asleep,seas in my rearview is stuckSomebody inmy chest, is crawling on my skin, is staring at me, is biting me Something is stuck inmy throat, in my eye They are asleep, they are burning, Heavy numb weak tired tingly on fire, like home Her arms amputated around me Lemons, white rice, pebbles and moss, onions cherries, A billion jump Chinese and is one injured part body Name abowl is when not microwave safe Name Iarrive when Name you when die Name continents the all when were together Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Ella Etruscan Olives Burnt and Sien(n)a” as it was suggested by Google. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 91 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Let me watch this Let watch me TAPE AND EARTHQUAKES AND TAPE Charm City, Charmglow Charmglow City, Charm Allwheel protectant giveaway protectant Allwheel SHE IS ADDICTED TO ADHESIVE TO SHE IS ADDICTED Two Karmapas clean a farm house a farm clean Karmapas Two Goldworks, games crush her castles crush her games Goldworks, Her diamond and fearful symmetry and diamond Her Grammar is just a set of probabilities a set of just is Grammar Lunar laundry starch lemon meringue lemon laundry starch Lunar Her car won’t start, her calf, her cancer calf, start, her her won’t car Her She both grows fruit and doesn’t bloom doesn’t fruit and both grows She Calpahlon corporation laceration recall laceration Calpahlon corporation She is a collagist of miracle movie deaths movie miracle of a collagist is She Her cardboard lover tampered and stalled and tampered lover cardboard Her A goat, also the trees could have been lyrics also have could the trees A goat, Her arrows of outrageous fortune point down point fortune outrageous of arrows Her And then the weather turns into a karma loop a karma into turns then the weather And and yet we are alive in Egypt doing Elvis Presley Elvis in Egypt doing alive are we yet and Hookah Lounge, herbal hopstop sandal turmeric, Lounge, Hookah Grout a Norwegian, the girl vs. snake compatibility the girl snake vs. a Norwegian, Grout She wears a necklace in the shape of a medical a event of a necklace in the shape wears She She keeps an ever-growing archive of god in her garage god in her of archive ever-growing an keeps She Salmonella compass points to “Her Thighs: The Movie” The Thighs: “Her to points compass Salmonella Cheek activator unloader, pickup summer-proof eyeliner summer-proof pickup unloader, Cheek activator Butterfly purple enamel “But I’m a cheerleader” injections cheerleader” a I’m “But purple enamel Butterfly Adhesive mixed with an awesome god in an abominable church abominable god in an awesome an with mixed Adhesive Nasturtiums and clematis climb in contraction, in her intestines in her in contraction, climb clematis and Nasturtiums The Philippines are transparent with cakes and pants and and salaries and pants cakes with transparent are Philippines The One basketball was in Latin and her other shoe was all made of logic all shoe was of made other her basketball in Latin and was One Let’s change clothes, chase each other around the room, change the world change the room, around other each chase clothes, change Let’s Her vampire husband sounds like a voice full of money, a Van Cleef indicator a Van full money, of a voice like sounds husband vampire Her Yoga police pull her over on the Havanese Highway near the Houdini Hair Salon Hair the Houdini near Highway the Havanese on over police her pull Yoga She wants to buy Hello Kitty Health Insurance™ at the Hotel Concorde Saint Lazare Saint Concorde the Hotel at Insurance™ Health Kitty Hello buy to wants She We are stuck on Monologue Mountain where she buys Tragic Marionette sheet music sheet Marionette Tragic buys she where Mountain Monologue on stuck are We an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 91 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 92

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\\\ 94 \\\ | A COLLAGIST TAGGED THESKY Wood mushrooms hymn under wings to an incense that smells like jeans Mint and Swansboro rue, garment songs Wishmaster envelopes with prayers willed Wishbones are charms, inmonochrome 10bridges burn Why wash offthe mosquito repellant? Why wash meat? Why washing the does machine get out of balance? Why won’t bloom? her teeth Why is wisdom as a personified woman inIllinoisjokes? eatDogs grass inWhyville My twitching blue the eyemarried sky Herpes bags,aconstructivist of method parenting Your ticket escalated, adietwithout has been apermit Identificationtraps, dresses cut bridal into years An infestation of orchids and pictures She invented amyth Vegas to explain inLas that gym Her Sundays were outfittedwith prednisone A hummingbird problem inmy closet A moth sailboat that inyour like looks abee ear Impossible things inFrench bad and you were someone else Mozart mutts, ghostly other people killing dothe thesaurusThe with dies thirstour mechanism Couture spice, diddles bras stamped with pets Was it before cakes, figurines, paintedand furniture? When was internet the invented? When was Jesus really born? Twirls and Twirl twigs, Mania, asquirrel twirl Tin pant liquidator, trauma model, twins wig Heartgold, Mister Seed’s Deals Good A slender man slipper inthe room near aslanted door True stick death, slow seasons, sunswim lyric Hammer camp WoW, auto and parts rehab her ankle sagasThe break like a moon coverednew tickets in 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 95 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM The snow is falling snow The Horse games for girls for games Horse You have been closed have You Magic scoop best price Magic A god A check A man A grant A Chevrolet and then Tango made three made then Tango and The compassion in sewing tape compassion The You contained validation errors validation contained You Is shyness a sin or a sign of love? a sign of a sin or shyness Is Of the Month clubs for Siberians for clubs Of the Month Softshelled under a billboard moon moon billboard a under Softshelled You were selected but not displayed not selected but were You They lived one day like it was orange it was like day one They lived You became the formalist portal god became of the formalist You The forbidden fortunes in Western wear Western in fortunes forbidden The Sometimes her flesh lived in the fun lived lane flesh her Sometimes Andromeda written on a chart of measures of a chart on written Andromeda The valley shook and none walked through none valleyand The shook Smackdown dental with green stars smocking stars green with dental Smackdown Miracle Tiber on the corner of Bitter and Sweet and Bitter of the corner on Tiber Miracle Crocodile sayings, black curtains, pure imagination curtains, pure black Crocodile sayings, Islands strung like chapter summaries, an idle stroll an summaries, chapter strung like Islands An unfinished husband, you are an oasis in collapse an oasis are you husband, unfinished An My life is stupid, sexist, horrible, terrible, like soccer like terrible, horrible, sexist, stupid, is life My Love cake topper, blue blazer style, gifts, blessings, boyfriends blessings, gifts, style, blazer blue topper, cake Love The outside of the house was covered in moonflowers, moth wings moonflowers, in covered was house of the outside The The shyness in Japanese bedrooms, small packages in smoky places in smoky small packages bedrooms, Japanese in shyness The Little shadows, lithotripsy, hollowing tools: the ultimate rarities in her heart in her rarities the ultimate tools: hollowing lithotripsy, shadows, Little There were fewer bands, the Mysterians’ greater use for love was like a lotion like was love for use greater Mysterians’ the fewer bands, were There an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 95 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 96

\\\ 96 \\\ | Your were whiskies invented inchurches, as fluid the used in compassesmagnetic Your were colorized Christmases canceled, your then white was Christmas colorized You worship both and ignore dreams with aknife apecan inan orangeOpen porch cartoon Your inventoried uncertainty You protect world the powers from with unspecified destruction What value is deanimation to amicrobe? Your shirred, your says shirt costume Your biography is an ontological argument Your elegant never forgot dentistry Your membranes were empathetic, benevolent and helpful Your eyeswere layered inold anesthetic, sequences inecological Elegy, ellipse, essay You were an equation exact of anemia inMediterranean women You were an address, autism also and art You were godliness, ownership, government You were witchcraft or an affidavit You were of anatomy aseries or haiku You were abusiness letter, asonnet, alarge window glass You were mostly usable to plants You were aFrench overture or acity Thiswritten poem was after my poem “Twilight’s Hem” as it was suggested by Bing. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 97 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Wing, hull, effect hull, Wing, Dog kites do Brazil Dog kites For you, I will party you, For Show Tokyo on a map on Tokyo Show MAXIMUM CIRCUS FRUIT MAXIMUM Acts, posters, costumes posters, Acts, Sunflower cake diorama cake Sunflower Play Halloween hangman Halloween Play Show how peeps are made peeps are how Show An example of solicited paper solicited of example An Whitening crankbaits obscura crankbaits Whitening Place dreaming in photography dreaming Place DollieCrave fonts in doll school in doll fonts DollieCrave School Island, scandalous folders scandalous School Island, Plus-sized pink suits slay dragons slay suits pink Plus-sized Places, occasions, papillons de nuit papillons occasions, Places, Show a machine that makes marbles makes that a machine Show Show science projects with examples with science projects Show At the beginning or end of a sentence of end the beginning or At Dress tomorrow in photos of yourself of in photos tomorrow Dress Vindicator and restless, refuse patdown refuse restless, and Vindicator Show a machine gun cartridge a belt with a machine Show Service hope of codes act the execution as Show some mercy in your shooting games shooting in your mercy some Show Your legs in consideration, broadcast the self broadcast legs in consideration, Your Field studies in a deaf font for lady machines lady for font deaf in a studies Field Believe and tremble as even the even dirt as breathed Believe tremble and Free Johnny Cash from predetermined dance steps dance predetermined Cash from Johnny Free Foot locker, meat dress, bad romance, marshmallow bad romance, dress, meat locker, Foot Throughout the body twice a year or twice a century the year body twice a Throughout ProblemWoW, sky beads, soft coated, wheaten cleat grass cleat wheaten beads, coated, sky soft ProblemWoW, The naps on the porch buried me between failures and bread and buriedme failures between on the porch naps The The dogs ate crumbs from the table on the day you were born were you on day the the table crumbs ate from dogs The Peeptoe, preparing newly woven silk, personal protection devices silk, personal protection newly woven preparing Peeptoe, When an object’s velocity decreases and a bone is forced out of its joint its of out forced is a bone decreases and velocity object’s an When The articulation of skulls as dogs return to Auburn Hills, to a refuge in Hawaii in refuge Hills,to a Auburn to return as dogs skulls of articulation The an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 97 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 98

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\\\ 100 \\\ | Yoga corticosteroids, exhale, inhaled inapparel for dwelling Piercing printable secrets Atlantic county evacuation, coloring produces much too insulin Stoned at McDonald’s again bones, gems, meaningsCrystals, Telling from stone type, tin sours and meanings their Danger Mouse, Sunday punch radioportal Mother omega god, cross stitch dogpattern Is holy the spirit in Easter baskets too? A canvas of sciatica Stretched by god, stretched on rack, the stretchedwrinkling film Scared, short surprised, of breath, smothered with apillow What inlove being with Benjamin Franklin feels like How flowsthrough blood your heart Your standards for success briefly: Describe Diamonds swell and feel heavy, whole the world legsthat describe A woman that letsadogknot her legs An elastic waistband, hiddenplatform amputee boots, warmers Bulgarian paintball with atwist Nylon ladder, octopus socks regardedA recycled Christ as inquiry With water, to doat home, ice, with with light eggs, with magnets, with dry Static stretches underwater bowling Show muscle the going to supraspinous the fossa Muscles of body, the of face, the of back, of the bottom the of foot the She’s tuckered out with pirate days She’s and border apeel stick wall Walkthrough untrue nightmares, treasure locations, piebald pond hockey speculative writing prompts occasion diseases, special Igo,Everywhere Hollywood is undead, gone plastic surgery wrong inplastic patterns An evening gown covers her scarred chest name pet an forI need evil WoW, or evening work, or an evergreen shrub Without and without abbreviations medical under an animated sun Can you weld with acar battery? Wordgarden wildtangent, there are regrets inher shoes 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 101 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM For pet loss? For Today is devotional is Today Pinball and pit bulls pit and Pinball For painted tinware? painted For The circumference of a circle circumference The Angel wings and animal eyes animal and wings Angel Cadaver the Clown is for sale for is the Clown Cadaver Crochet stitches and circumcision and stitches Crochet In circus terms, what is cherry is what pie? terms, circus In circa 1940 with a velvet cinema seat cinema a velvet 1940 with circa Metamaterials, eagle fables with eggs with eagle fables Metamaterials, Her muscles twitch toward bankruptcy toward twitch muscles Her Anatomically correct bisque wire joints wire bisque correct Anatomically What’s another word for perpendicular? for word another What’s darksiders walk through a rabbit theater a rabbit walk through darksiders Parade float viewing from a petal viewing cottage float from Parade The gold can stay, truthnoodles holidays stay, can gold The After death, philosophy and nonexistence and philosophy death, After An undone violet, thermocouple skimmers thermocouple violet, undone An Nevada ghost towns inhibited by nitric acid nitric by inhibited towns ghost Nevada There was light in a box on an August piazza August an on in a box light was There When your friend cheats with words and food and words with friend cheats your When The Hindustan Times flies with hummingbirds with flies Times Hindustan The Record names and dates on this sugarcane field this sugarcane on dates and names Record Vintage anatomy patterns and another way to die to way another and patterns anatomy Vintage Hinge repair, the history of the unslept, ocean liners the unslept, the history of repair, Hinge Circus acts like Senorita Sanchez and the Bounding Rope the Bounding and acts Sanchez Senorita like Circus Wild Alaska flying pig marathon, ants on a spaghetti monster spaghetti on a ants marathon, pig flying Alaska Wild Spontaneous combustion coupled with invisibility technology invisibility with coupled combustion Spontaneous Poets born after 1960 who committed suicide and are still are alive and suicide 1960 committed who born after Poets Unitards and leotards, chin up bars, carrots, teeterboard catcher teeterboard carrots, bars, up chin leotards, and Unitards Fortune teller fish, paper games sayings, career paths ghost towns ghost paths career sayings, games paper fish, teller Fortune Is there a word for people who use big words and are never wrong? never are and words who use people big for a word there Is Another word for pretty, problem, perfect, party, proud, pain-positive proud, perfect, party, problem, pretty, for word Another The backlash started with an overhead crane and a $300 snap-on smile a $300 snap-on and crane overhead an started The backlash with Our light is what makes us artists and it’s also what lights up a ‘59 Ford up lights also what it’s and artists us makes what is Our light This amorous sweet reluctant decay, obvious strategies in a pathless woods in a pathless strategies obvious decay, reluctant sweet amorous This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 101 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 102

\\\ 102 \\\ | This party evolved party Thisfrom stones A candy luminous analysis, yellow pink and blue of and ships full Steelhead inaprophetic anointing, skindex Foldable girls, she to failed show flamenco the in her drawers Offshore coupons form an wind optical Coefficient charms, circular waves onastraight mirror Eternal of beads light and refraction build scenes Crime themselves Cigarette pants for women toxicity,Copper Ismile when wrinkle crinkle There are no predictionseyes inhis No no hands, cookies, bake list no call Man with no ears joke Half abody, without acountry, no face Motivational speakers without arms or legs Pedestal costume on amountain different country Horse meanings on aterrace overlooking acity Woman fight starts over chicken nuggets and ends gluedup the to toilet fortwo years Cracking whip duo liftsnakes hand to hand Thiswritten poem was based on Peep/Showsearch as terms it was suggested by Bing. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 103 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM He is Jesus is He LAND OF CHAOS LAND OF An anticline trap anticline An He needs a break He An Austrian went yodeling went Austrian An Luna legs, amour oral paroles oral legs, amour Luna An anticline has beds that dip beds has that anticline An An audience with the arcanist with audience An An anticline is a fold in which in a fold is anticline An He needs to figure himself out himself figure needs to He Honey John, the cicada Baptist John, Honey Antic Indian handmade knives handmade Indian Antic He likes her and then doesn’t call then doesn’t and her likes He He wants to leave his wife but doesn’t but wife his leave to wants He An author’s purpose rhetoric in using author’s An An animal that starts with the letter N the starts letter with that animal An An audio recording device cannot be found device cannot recording audio An A kitchen oil fire for Hitler, a kitchen prayer a kitchen Hitler, for fire oil A kitchen In the vacation dictionary: kush the vacation In kabob, koa, A painting of antique gold cheese in acrylics gold antique of A painting She swears like candy in her cancer cardigan cancer in her candy like swears She Cancellations, the taxonomy of a tall king of red the taxonomy Cancellations, An autosomal recessive disorder in five chapters in five disorder recessive autosomal An Chainlove cattery, King Humbert’s mottled virus mottled Humbert’s King cattery, Chainlove Lawn ornaments, glam couture cupcakes in Dubai Lawn ornaments, Civilization timeline, creation myths, child mummies child myths, creation timeline, Civilization Vortexing baffles, his chafing stick, his word for “melt” for word his stick, chafing his baffles, Vortexing Items sin and itchy tiny spots on the bottom of her feet her of the bottom on spots tiny itchy sin and Items Puppy snips, interchangeable needles, deer horns synthetic interchangeable snips, Puppy Her true fitness could be vented out the chimney, her anti-sweat valves anti-sweat her chimney, the out vented could truebe fitness Her Any any any gold right now above the stomach, right below the braline below right the stomach, above now right gold any any Any This antique Chinese coin will bring you wealth or a sequence in blood in or a wealthsequence you bring will Chinese coin antique This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 103 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 104

\\\ 104 \\\ | Grab abird’s that tail messages carries through our bodies Wishweird noises sit on tiny cream sofas infront of tinted windows knives inthunder campCarving boot Cinema, lizard winking bingo, princess stealing dragons In what is chewing country gumillegal? inawheelchairA kid abackflip does Use “seedfolks” or “daily life” inasentence Addicting games, clustering clouds Chant and happy be or chant against apartheid Anti-waiting lounge, aThin Mint be akinesia, Scout Girl Trash Dress the Boutique Canny automatic strapping machine Antifacts, artist insurance her inAmerica, chess-colored hair Invitations to farm ponds inGreek mythology When nervous While singing While exercising Yawn station tree Christmas farm Can ayawn atic? be Yellow streak futurity, red spots Kiwi fruit the Kiwi animal the Kiwi clown the Kiwi bird the Thiswritten poem was after my poem“Loco Locust” as it was suggested by Bing. 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 105 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Guava, grapes Guava, Chutzpah candy Chutzpah PILLOWS, PLUSH TOYS, PLUSH TOYS, PILLOWS, Taxidermy, witches’ legs witches’ Taxidermy, A witch and a cat pattern a cat and A witch Duck mind, dock lantern mind, Duck Dark meat doll decoration doll meat Dark Tranquility without larceny without Tranquility CRABMEAT, LOBSTER SHELLS LOBSTER CRABMEAT, The electric The of escape history Mac ‘n cheese, mashed potatoes mashed cheese, ‘n Mac Cupcakes filled with the holy spirit filledholy with the Cupcakes Dogs can go to fish, drain east to west to east drain fish, to go Dogs can His holy spirit cartoons with happiness with cartoons spirit holy His Dreams and beer for god, a lame of god of a lame god, beer and for Dreams baptized open-minded without measure without open-minded baptized She is filled with new coolant but little heat little but filled is new She coolant with Kodak playsport waterproof mixed feelings mixed waterproof playsport Kodak Stuffed with feelings, he unbuttons his his pants he unbuttons feelings, with Stuffed A semaphore that is protected from receiving from protected is that A semaphore Font cap, flashlight, front chimneyswig, glass front flashlight, cap, Font Stuffed with Love Taxidermy: No Pet TooSmall Pet No Taxidermy: with Love Stuffed The iridescence in ingenious, indignant thought indignant iridescenceThe in ingenious, All the fullness and goodness of a potential crises a potential All goodness of the fullness and A lace of rage documentary, a lake of wooden tears of a lake documentary, rage A lace of Her joy is personalized on tin buckets, on tote bags tote on tin buckets, personalized is on joy Her The corresponding content of anger and amino acids amino and anger of content corresponding The Fun, fear, fizz, crossword fascination like an aquarium like fascination fizz, crossword fear, Fun, contains four distinct types of fish described detail fish types distinct of in four great contains She is an excitement hymn, with the ennui of eggs gourami of the ennui with hymn, excitement an is She A lake becomes a brown black forest, a blouseblack building a blouseblack forest, black a brown becomes A lake A lake of melanin causes skin to whiten in an invented Virginia invented in an whiten to skin causes melanin of A lake lake juice, marker lights, memory the ocean, under lights, padlock, pilgrim marker juice, lake A lake running through cities, switch keys, name belt, railroad lanterns railroad belt, name keys, switch cities, runningA lake through Fat suit, rice, poblano peppers, spinach and cranberry, smoked whitefish smoked cranberry, and peppers, spinach poblano rice, suit, Fat Without water, whalers without fire, a bird reflection, someone gets hit by a car by a hit gets reflection,someone bird a fire, whalers without water, Without an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 105 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 106

\\\ 106 \\\ | Crows classified as women’s clothing Birds, bats, butterflies,boots Birds are luck bad coming into your house, knocking on your windows Their meanings: signs, birds,frogs Birds alchemist in the motorcycle club Triangle woman, ifyou are one Orca vs.blade mandolin review Travel at of beginning the asentence As nails, as Jane, as mutually agreed, along black magic test Lyrics shattered like tickets, tour dates A quick advance in quasi-permanent, quasi-experimental design Total permanent matrixdectomy, aproper mixof employees am Iorigami seas, Oyster or of part disease? the Or am Ijust aroadblock standing inCalabasas? still Griffinrampant,armed and language sable Probability gated with words beautifulThe nightmaresonic ina toothbrush or an extended crested butte Lion rampant azure (quarterly) sauce,cheese dollars,ghosts,trampolines flies, smoke,Balloons, candles, money, water, pianos, books, glitter withA room legos filled and guys and stars A roomy car for person that’s an obese 178feet long A room long amile that Binghamton heals Reliableremodeler A rook piercing, color the velvet somewhere, swept white No one can enter nearby A room made of windows inToronto A room insummary, inabstract design A room has four corners, each corner has agirl A room of brass full mirrors and violets in Hello Kitty! in dark purple and light orange in dark purple and yellow There is a room decorated for Princess Tinkerbell Vegetables, goat of violence, wonder, full awestruck wonder reverence, holyspirit effects special jam,Quince rage the and regret inregular gas instead of diesel 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 107 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM Undermount holocaust survivors holocaust The abomination in film abomination The The bad luck of owlsin war of luck The bad A summary in geisha amnesia A summary in geisha The internet is also a quote bush quote is also a internet The Four red feathers, a raven’s feather a raven’s feathers, red Four To hear a dog whining and no dog no and a dog whining hear To Two doves in rugged black gingham doves Two Books fetter black dragonflight bedding dragonflight black Books fetter The internet is also a burning quote bush quote burning is also a internet The Meaning made into movies and mental illness mental and movies into made Meaning The universal lesson of biography and depression and biography of lesson universal The Neo-angled, geisha-full text, prince consort death consort prince text, geisha-full Neo-angled, Remember me in a script that looks like Rhodesia looks like that in a script me Remember Dictionary avenir, examples, essays found in a bathtub found essays examples, Dictionary avenir, Dictionary dresses, dead spiders, define a villain’s shoes a villain’s define Dictionary dead spiders, dresses, A stately toilet sings onstage, the Sherman syllabi, lullaby syllabi, the Sherman onstage, sings toilet A stately Saluki syndrome, petite clothes and swarms of mosquitos of swarms and clothes petite Saluki syndrome, My father is Missouri, autobiography vs. personal narrative autobiography Missouri, is father My The predictions in parakeets, in pull-on steeltoed workboots steeltoed pull-on in in parakeets, predictions The Collage frame, the definition of opals in dysfunctionalopals in of people the definition Collage frame, A list of luna moths over a luncheon prayer, theatre lunar elite lunar theatre prayer, a luncheon over moths luna of A list Give attention to, intercultural, which literary device to write to which literary device write to intercultural, to, attention Give Omens related to rabbits, in the throbbing of your right eyebrow right your of in the throbbing rabbits, to related Omens in rainboots, in robins hitting the window, regard cardinal feathers cardinal regard the window, hitting in robins in rainboots, Our Shanghai correspondence written like children in the present tense in the present children like written correspondence Our Shanghai I was ink in China, an idea about black and white photography in the Himalayas photography white and black idea inkI was about in China, an The graffiti in Gucci red and green sandals, K-Swiss orange and white tennis shoes tennis white and orange K-Swiss sandals, green and red Gucci in The graffiti Omens involving hawks, wallets, the world Cup soccer schedule, force limbs exploding limbs soccer force schedule, Cup wallets, the world hawks, involving Omens This poem was made from my notebook of Google searches as it was suggested by Bing. by suggested was it as searches of Google notebook my from made was poem This an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 107 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 108

\\\ 108 \\\ | ANNE GORRICK Anne lives Gorrick inWest Park, New York. industry. (including annual the Subterranean Festival), Poetry and of history cement the preserves now-defunct the local of Widow the Jane Mine, an all-volunteer organization (www.centuryhouse.org) that presents avariety of events arts She is apast President, and continuing member of of Board the Trustees at House Century Historical Society, home around New York’s Hudson Valley. With Melanie she Klein, curates reading “Process the series to Text,” on focuses innovative which writing from inand collaborated on in-depth and visual textual projects with Scott Helmes and John Bloomberg-Rissman. byfunded Women’s the Studio Workshop NYand inRosendale, New the York Foundation for She Arts. the has also She has collaborated with artist Cynthia Winika to produce alimited edition artists’ “Swans, book, the ice,” she said, Writing from the Hudson River Valley (Station Hill Press, 2016). 2017), and She is author the including books of several most The recently: Olfactions: Poems on (BlazeVOXPerfume Books, A’s Visuality (BlazeVOX, 2015). She co-edited (with Sam Truitt) is awriter and artist. visual photo of the author in the Widow Jane Mine at Century House, by Franco Vogt In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 109 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM PROCESSUAL NOTE: PROCESSUAL These poems began in 2011 with an investigation into John Cage’s adventures adventures John Cage’s into investigation an These 2011 in poems with began Paltz, New at York New of University the State at working I was chance. with Art, a regular with of Museum Dorsky the Samuel a small had museum, we and and to explore is show of ideathe The called Objects.” “Reading exhibition So paintings. to next cards those little on said traditionally is what on expand write to pieces pick could and visual work, of array an with presented were we Cage by score a musical accompany to something I decided write to about. This it. hate to came I and something, wrote I be exhibition. to partwas of that enough far go nearly I didn’t I felt score. Cage’s to next poem displayed was researching So by Cage. with I started again the poemwith engage really to Works. Representative Low’s Mac Jackson timewith I also spent and Cage, by way the myself entertained find and notice I began to this time, Around since better a lot gotten needs (it’s our anticipate to attempted engines search slowly to I find thesebegan be to now). poemspossible not would it then,and poems) short entire toward way my poetry typeof lines working (eventually the dropdown through way my laugh and boxes, search Google Bing and into began I search. my underneath appeared that results anticipated wrongly of list adding I was I thought first, At results. these search of poems make out to these search the opposite: just was it realize to I came the poem, but into chance which ended own, my not desire, algorithmic the zeitgeist’s from came results in this the poem. dissolves The for “I” poetic thepossibilities expanding up desire. so thepoem first I read I thewrote museum, at a reading give to invited I was pouring (by one the old of the new poem read disliked), out I made I now (that the invited and results), with the working and engines search into the first Hat Wool That poem performance “Is Low in the Mac participate to audience Hat.” My an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 109 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 110

\\\ 110 \\\ | AND LYNNE DESILVA-JOHNSON A CONVERSATION WITHANNEGORRICK POETICS ANDPROCESS: generative text, I’d come up with completely differentsearchthe poems, as algorithms would newest find the always). The editedthentext is down poems. theto engage tried to If I samewiththe process nowsamewiththe plucked from drop-down the boxes insearch engines after Iinput lines of various text (mostlypoems, but not water (like Hudson, the I which live near). As I explained more process in the note text the is book, in this poems are These like installationan art from made the garbage, junk you might find in and bodyaround a of confounded this (or abook, in general) coming together? Was it astruggle? body of work. How and why did this happen? Have you had this intention for awhile? What en-couraged and/or Talk about the process or instinct to move these poems (or your work in general) asindependent entities into a Maybeeasy). our largest role is to show possibilities the of living/writing/arting possibly. little transactionality. monetary very role Our is to praise and witness. To present be days these (which isn’t about as contrarian as you can get right now to on spendtime something that has essentially no efficient return, behind. In away,thing,behind late-stage as left being is a good rapaciousalone.capitalism leavespoetry It’s We are singers and makers by etymology. As world the gets more visual, language and sound are left being What do you see asyour cultural and social role (in the poetry community and beyond)? What’s a“poet”, anyway? What the is role of the poet today? my studio right now! Iam ardent toward materiality, working mostly on paper. Paper contains light. pigment). I’ve worked also inpainting, scent. film soundand Also You shouldthejasmine smell waxI have in mostly inmonotype printmaking using encaustic (“to burn” from Greek) the materials resin and (beeswax, I’ve myself calling been awriter since forever. or poet But artist for avisual am also past the 20+years, working affiliations do you prefer/feel are more accurate)? When did you decide you were apoet (and/or: do you feel comfortable calling yourself apoet, what other titles or valently than linear, utilitarian language allows, that language can hold many opposing at ideas once. offbecome to moresentence-y pastthe in few years. We havethecapacity to “mean” much more, more multi- writing since Iacquired language. is most the plastic Poetry form of language for me, but my work is veering joys, and something also that has saved my life. My parents played with it only insofar as it was agame. I’ve been I never really had achoice. I’ve playing been with language since Iwas alittle kid. It’s one been of my greatest Why are you apoet? 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 111 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM came into its being/body. Each poem being/body. its into came and we had this visitor counter on it that would save all the search terms people used to find us. used on people find Basedto terms all the search save would that it on counter this visitor had we and and latest output. The electronic zeitgeist changes constantly, like a river. I’m riveted by the temporality of this temporality by the riveted I’m a like river. constantly, changes zeitgeist electronic The output. latest and experiment. unrepeatable a around seemed sotriumph a like that Word, recognized by not in this book are the words of a third About like: words twoinclude first poems The canon. textual stiltsville Storkcraft Understones shantybisque Smokesmash Brineshrimpdirect Smirky nimblewilled pineboy fuckery Whimsicle Regretsy Libelula photobiographies riskmetrics skyrim slingbox vicodin Mintymix danglesauce Regalessia tomatometer writhings invincibles grooveshark fuckery is Whimsicle “Regretsy wrote: Gardner poet Susanna point, one at I posted Facebook these on When be all having.” we should what Absence An poemsfrom how of example a direct here Let include me see can I began with thetext you below, the photo art!). In more (art poem makes text or another started with journal electronic called an Peep/ I to co-curate engine. used ainto search slowly poured was the left. This on Show, poetry porn and and can circus (you included terms that lists voluptuous create I could “Peep/Show,” the words ZOOM). On the GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS THE DIHEDRONS bookeven see a Leslie Scalapino here: of a title (sometimes it down edit would I and then box, down drop engine of the search out spit the stuff of some is right very sometimes a lot, little). an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 111 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 112

\\\ 112 \\\ | how many thousands ofyou balls have to hit before that shot one perfect that you was possible. never even knew sound within confine. areally small also played I alot of competitive tennis up until a few years ago. Yousee When Iwas young, Istudied classical piano for nine years, and you how to start see much you canto tweak define you work/write? teachers or instructive environments, or readings/writings of other creative people (poets or others) informed the way What formal structures or other constructive practices (if any) do you in use the creation of your work? Have certain generative processes. that fluency this is body after this of work, I was able transport to itin small amounts, intonew work otherwith and by end, the fluent I became in playing/maneuveringwithinthis generative system. The great thingabout text. If process the doesn’t abandon enough, juicy I’ll seem it before happens. abook In Ikept case, this going As you Igenerally can see, playing start with aprocessual These idea. processes often generatebook-length a while the poems themselves were being written? How or how not? Did you envision this collection asacollection or understand your process aswriting specifically around a theme ofbeginning another and up ended poem, of start the being another entire manuscript of poems... When Iwent back later to edit entire the manuscript, Ifound that the aphrase from became same this poem 8/21/18 5:01 PM | /// 113 /// 8/21/18 5:01 PM I love the Arnold Palmer quote about “the more I practice, the luckier I get.” I’m a dabbler in a Chinese body a dabbler I’m I get.” the luckier I practice, more “the about quote Palmer the Arnold I love be it. part of landscape, through body move my feel to hike, to love I and martial “internal art”), (an practice The music. art, and writing, of out life a construct to how the poet about from Robertlearned a lot Kelly I’ve visual art to study to when I wanted me to in Rosendale, arms-open-wide NY was Workshop Studio Women’s work. textual my extend textual my extends always it as artists, and writers other with collaborating by amount learneda tremendous I’ve translation, attempt to me my friend Lee encouraged has Gould Lately, fluencies. my visual vocabularies, and very and of been in awe I’ve collaborator. hilarious and generous been has my Padilla poetand Eduardo integrate to how me taught him have with collaborations My projects. Bloomberg-Rissman’s John by moved artists alongside Working me. for big leap so a silo-ed. was This not so they’re processes, generative various I also fluencies. co-curated their into insights me gave projects different on Helmes Scott and Winika Cynthia Translator the colab. to a debt this book and owes Behrendt, poet with Lynn journal Peep/Show electronic an and photographs of conversation alternating an published recently I and Mandell Charlotte photographer and because I learn people so other much. with work to poems. I love ledhas This Roland. Paula artist with monotype encaustic into I started a deeper investigation recently, Most holes. rabbit supermagic breathtaking some down book, the titled you way the about Talk generated? it was How represent? title your does what monikers, of Speaking specifically. work your colors and/or you influences etc) sections, (poems, naming of process your how and this generative of out came that a phrase was Light” of Evidence is it Spontaneous and so Great Absence “An Internet. or the mother my of both definition a great make would it think both and that laugh me made It work. flatness The specifically sounding. flat deliberately, often in each poem, a line are and from come titles Most magenta. to next green Like olive the work. of nature belies the antic practice? method/creative your of ...as indicative you to represent poems of collection particular this does What mission/intentions/hopes/plans? your history? your sometimes. way that happens just It written. was it in the order in book form published necessarily isn’t work My in other been used in smaller have quantities stage, take center in this book processes that So the generative “I” the how interesting it’s but lyric, the break from a was work in this echolocation processual books. The that not I’m me. tell to comes language what for around I wait times that many said I’ve occur. to continues taking notes. I’m “say.” to out setting or the work, in controlling interested very become I’ve in this interview) that is this later about (more Century House at work my of outcome An the arts. by colonized eventually is capitalism) rapacious stage late of failedindustry (examples how in interested the in That poems times. many history my family impacted and has out beenbust cycle born and This boom an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 113 an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 114

\\\ 114 \\\ | wrote, “Scorn nothing. Write everything.” Praise and witness. space.free Which of is start the something essential, non-hierarchical. Deleuze’s “yes and.” Kelly As Robert chance, accident, cloud formation, precariousness. every Anything that is slippery. Anything at It’s all. apurely In is investigative aradical, end, the poem the It’s act. where afield canwe explore and interrogate fluidity,every voices heard. to be Education is resistance. help come them to of school, become part hopes in the ourthey larger creative community. I want our student’s unreasonable educational debt. Ioften workwithbaby writers and artists, and many marginalized students to form of slavery, and that financialbest literacythe way is to avoid students constrainingtheir creative liveswith Secondly, my day job is that Iwork inFinancial Aid at acommunity college. Ifeel strongly about debt a being events like into this horrors the of late stage capitalism, makes spacefor resistance, comfort and joy. This yearthehostAnnual 28th will we Subterranean Festival. AnyPoetry opportunity we have to create, insert sculpture exhibitions, innovation sound-art programs, and world music concerts including taiko drumming. President, Iwanted more arts to the use to interrogate industrial the we history preserve. We’ve had site-sensitive industry, and we have alittle museum, as well as Widow the Jane Mine on our property. But since Ibecame from 2009until 2017.An all-volunteer organization, our mission is of to history the cement preserve our local First, I’ve involved been House in Century NY since 2005,and Historical inRosendale, was President Society There aretwo parts of my lifethatthat activist, as see I practically help createthepoem-shaped in spaces world. and producing in isolated “silos.” race, age, privilege, social/cultural background, and sexuality within the community, vs.the dangers of remaining publication. I’d be curious to hear some thoughts on the challenges we face in speaking and publishing across lines of call “Civil Rights 2.0,” which has remained immediately present all around in us the time leading up to this series’ Let’s talk alittle bit about the role of poetics and creative community in social activism, in particular in what I possiblebestThe outcomethat is it is read, explored, investigated. It presents an antic,Dadaist joy forthe reader. your practice? an object facilitate your creative role in your community and beyond? What are your hopes for this book, and for What would be the best possible outcome for this book? What might it do in the world, and how its will presence as agreatmight send also Fuck You to late stage capitalism, clearly which isn’t working for many so people. An Absence (as muchWhat DO as book what this does it says or contains)? dross into... are book this essentially made out of internet detritus bumps into notions, these transformation alchemical the moves language way, inanew and might make you laugh. Introduces amulti-valent capacity. It 8/21/18 5:01 PM ALSO BY ANNE GORRICK

My Beauty is an Occupiable Space - (a collaboration with John Bloomberg-Rissman)

The Olfactions: Poems on Perfume

In|Filtration: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry from the Hudson River Valley co-edited with Sam Truitt

A’s Visuality

I-Formation (Book Two)

I-Formation (Book One)

Kyotologic: the Pillow Book Poems

“Swans, the ice,” she said a collaboration with Cynthia Winika

an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 115 8/21/18 5:01 PM WHY PRINT / DOCUMENT?

The Operating System uses the language “print document” to differentiate from the book-object as part of our mission to distinguish the act of documentation-in-book-FORM from the act of publishing as a backwards-facing replication of the book’s agentive *role* as it may have appeared the last several centuries of its history. Ultimately, I approach the book as TECHNOLOGY: one of a variety of printed documents (in this case, bound) that humans have invented and in turn used to archive and disseminate ideas, beliefs, stories, and other evidence of production.

Ownership and use of printing presses and access to (or restriction of printed materials) has long been a site of struggle, related in many ways to revolutionary activity and the fight for civil rights and free speech all over the world. While (in many countries) the contemporary quotidian landscape has indeed drastically shifted in its access to platforms for sharing information and in the widespread ability to “publish” digitally, even with extremely limited resources, the importance of publication on physical media has not diminished. In fact, this may be the most critical time in recent history for activist groups, artists, and others to insist upon learning, establishing, and encouraging personal and community documentation practices. Hear me out.

With The OS’s print endeavors I wanted to open up a conversation about this: the ultimately radical, transgressive act of creating PRINT /DOCUMENTATION in the digital age. It’s a question of the archive, and of history: who gets to tell the story, and what evidence of our life, our behaviors, our experiences are we leaving behind? We can know little to nothing about the future into which we’re leaving an unprecedentedly digital document trail — but we can be assured that publications, government agencies, museums, schools, and other institutional powers that be will continue to leave BOTH a digital and print version of their production for the official record. Will we?

As a (rogue) anthropologist and long time academic, I can easily pull up many accounts about how lives, behaviors, experiences — how THE STORY of a time or place — was pieced together using the deep study of correspondence, notebooks, and other physical documents which are no longer the norm in many lives and practices. As we move our creative behaviors towards digital note taking, and even audio and video, what can we predict about future technology that is in any way assuring that our stories will be accurately told – or told at all? How will we leave these things for the record?

In these documents we say: WE WERE HERE, WE EXISTED, WE HAVE A DIFFERENT STORY

- Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Founder/Creative Director THE OPERATING SYSTEM, Brooklyn NY 2018

an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 116 8/21/18 5:01 PM RECENT & FORTHCOMING OS PRINT / DOCUMENTS 2018-19

Ark Hive-Marthe Reed [2019] A Bony Framework for the Tangible Universe-D. Allen [kin(d)*, 2019] Śnienie / Dreaming - Marta Zelwan/Krystyna Sakowicz, (Polish-English/dual-language) trans. Victoria Miluch [glossarium, 2019] Opera on TV-James Brunton [kin(d)*, 2019] Alparegho: Pareil-À-Rien / Alparegho, Like Nothing Else - Hélène Sanguinetti (French-English/dual-language), trans. Ann Cefola [glossarium, 2019] Hall of Waters-Berry Grass [kin(d)*, 2019] High Tide Of The Eyes - Bijan Elahi (Farsi-English/dual-language) trans. Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian [glossarium, 2019] I Made for You a New Machine and All it Does is Hope - Richard Lucyshyn [2019] Illusory Borders-Heidi Reszies [2019] Transitional Object-Adrian Silbernagel [kin(d)*, 2019] A Year of Misreading the Wildcats [2019] An Absence So Great and Spontaneous It Is Evidence of Light - Anne Gorrick [2018] The Book of Everyday Instruction - Chloe Bass [2018] Executive Orders Vol. II - a collaboration with the Organism for Poetic Research [2018] One More Revolution - Andrea Mazzariello [2018] The Suitcase Tree - Filip Marinovich [2018] Chlorosis - Michael Flatt and Derrick Mund [2018] Sussuros a Mi Padre - Erick Sáenz [2018] Sharing Plastic - Blake Nemec [2018] The Book of Sounds - Mehdi Navid (Farsi dual language, trans. Tina Rahimi) [glossarium, 2018] In Corpore Sano : Creative Practice and the Challenged Body [Anthology, 2018] Abandoners - Lesley Ann Wheeler [2018] Jazzercise is a Language - Gabriel Ojeda-Sague [2018] Return Trip / Viaje Al Regreso - Israel Dominguez; (Spanish-English dual language) trans. Margaret Randall [glossarium, 2018] Born Again - Ivy Johnson [2018] Attendance - Rocío Carlos and Rachel McLeod Kaminer [2018] Singing for Nothing - Wally Swist [2018] The Ways of the Monster - Jay Besemer [2018] Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion - Gregory Crosby [2018] Field Guide to Autobiography - Melissa Eleftherion [2018] Kawsay: The Flame of the Jungle - María Vázquez Valdez (Spanish-English dual language) trans. Margaret Randall [glossarium, 2018] 2018 CHAPBOOK SERIES:

Want-catcher - Adra Raine; We, The Monstrous - Mark DuCharme; Greater Grave - Jacq Greyja; Needles of Itching Feathers - Jared Schickling

an absence_gorrick_forreview2.indd 117 8/21/18 5:01 PM DOC U MENT /däkyәmәnt/

First meant “instruction” or “evidence,” whether written or not.

noun - a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record verb - record (something) in written, photographic, or other form synonyms - paper - deed - record - writing - act - instrument

[Middle English, precept, from Old French, from Latin documentum, example, proof, from docre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

Who is responsible for the manufacture of value?

Based on what supercilious ontology have we landed in a space where we vie against other creative people in vain pursuit of the fleeting credibilities of the scarcity economy, rather than freely collaborating and sharing openly with each other in ecstatic celebration of MAKING?

While we understand and acknowledge the economic pressures and fear-mongering that threatens to dominate and crush the creative impulse, we also believe that now more than ever we have the tools to relinquish agency via cooperative means, fueled by the fires of the Open Source Movement.

Looking out across the invisible vistas of that rhizomatic parallel country we can begin to see our community beyond constraints, in the place where intention meets resilient, proactive, collaborative organization.

Here is a document born of that belief, sown purely of imagination and will. When we document we assert. We print to make real, to reify our being there.When we do so with mindful intention to address our process, to open our work to others, to create beauty in words in space, to respect and acknowledge the strength of the page we now hold physical, a thing in our hand, we remind ourselves that, like Dorothy: we had the power all along, my dears.  the PRINT! DOCUMENT SERIES is a project of the trouble with bartleby in collaboration with the operating system

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