[Poetry | Issue 13]

khashayar mohammadi

Arraigned

"the game of common etymology makes of writing a cutting movement, a tear, a crisis" -Maurice Blanchot

whaddya want from this City?
an admission to boyish transition?
asleep in narcosis or denial?
what good is a word with a mission
pumping rage
down the capillary.
an aerobic fall
for the Earth to find its imprint.
talk more precisely of presence.
cut the landscape with sharp shadows.
sometimes the unknown is scented
like cut grass
at the moment of incision
where the Sun is in migration.
i'm attracted to this naked outside.
bare thoughts for my friends
no thought for others.
the Sun can cause variance
between reason, and thought.
it can make communion of dung and bacteria.
in quick summary:
there's this brutal fist
and the radius of piss
spilled around each urinal.
shout!
from tongue/tooth/lip

the whole mouth Ensemble!
admit speech into
stable solutions of
rage in spit
or mercy in God.
there's talent in all this NothingDoing
when samelings haste at somethings.
anger made me choose this fatigue
in great disproportion
to what little work has so far been done

Some Blue Interlude

forget The Blue
nom de guerre for
catch & setup.
beam one book at blog proportions
or all u needed to know
uneven where we enter the bathhouse.
there's small trouble
and misplaced responses of salt.
oil and claimed inheritor,
seen in cooling rise
from fall of tool, spanning density
on the river of crude canola.
sparking pilot lights just to leave flame at 300.
there may not be exact equivalents in English
to whatever emotion has been exacted in Hungarian or German
but we brim with imagination and frankly that's enough.
either way
crust of wounds waving
one bank to the other
in shifts of elevation
arraigned by ordinate -x
and germs and worms and roots and enzymes
up -y for Liver Metastasis.
these bumper-to-bumper thoughts
by space of childhood images
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Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (They/Them) is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based Poet, Writer and Translator. They are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize and the author of “Book of Interruptions” , out with Wolsak and Wynn. Their sixth full length poetry manuscript HOUR HAND/ MINUTE HAND is being distributed for free on their instagram page @DearKestrel.