Sung in Cornish, it sparked a renewed interest in the language many considered on the brink of extinction, whilst its cosmic, folk tinged psychedelia recalled Cate Le Bon or Jane Weaver. It was testament to the concept’s boldness and articulation that Gwenno’s second album Le Kov was an artistic triumph and a vessel for expanding the ideas it introduced without lapsing into self-indulgence. She has an MFA from The New School and works at BOMB Magazine.Language is no barrier on Gwenno’s third studio album. Her short works have been published in the New York Times, New York Magazine’s “The Cut”, the Paris Review Daily, Bookforum, Joyland, Music & Literature, Slice Magazine, the LA Review of Books and other journals. Her chapbook Things I Told My Mother came out in 2013. Sarah Gerard is the author of the novel Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio, 2014).

The human arm weighs nine pounds on average. Some astronauts describe zero gravity as womblike: a more primitive state of being. In zero gravity, my hair would have body, lift off my skin. In zero gravity, my organs would drift under my ribcage, reducing my waist to a thin To train for zero gravity, I’d have to float in a swimming pool. I make this a “thing I do”, to always have some vessel with me, holding liquid. I find the displays in Dunkin’ Donuts especially motivating. On a number of factors, including the proximity of one’s companion. It is thought that our weight can fluctuate between two and four pounds a day, depending Other times I just need to have a precise This summer, when John was here, I weighed myself at least five times a day. The river at the bottom reflects nothing back. We are there for a moment, but we see it. I carry it with me but I can’t carry much. Because the longer I live in time, the less I believe in the past. Once, he tied me to the bed and played knives across my skin, but did not draw blood.īeauty can be tricked into being where it is not. River that winds through the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We moved in a clustered line down a hallway, some slower and some faster, like the We file out in a line that is rough at the edges and curves through a door, like sheep to My ribs, which are curves, are straight lines. Most of the time, when I think I have heard something, it is only my heartbeat. I know I am air because I hear and because I can see through myself. This morning I turned in circles before the mirror so that I could see my back. I stand at the back of the classroom, a core unhardened into flesh and reanimated, I am not really here though I am here, though I cannot be sure that I am anywhere, if I Something is dawning that I cannot explain, though I know it’s related to darkness. Iīelieve that I have mostly starved myself of will.

I believe in the possibility of perfection. To disagree with him would be to admit that I’ve lied. To disagree with John would be to renounce what he believes are our beliefs, what Iīelieve he believes are our beliefs. I cannot teach them primitivism, John I only teach I have become so much him that who I am isĮmpty. This morning, I turned in circles looking for my keys. The longer I live in time, the less I believe in the future. I cannot control the variable of morning. I drink my Red Bull in the classroom this morning. I cannot control what my body does, though at times I feel I can control what I do to I walk back and forth from the futon to the scale to the spheres to the futon to the I weigh myself again and again and again and still I am 92. I try on everything in my closet before the mirror and hate it. Of keeping myself intact while shedding outer layers. The body has to heat it up to break it down. They’reĬold food takes more energy to digest than warm food. I am thinking about the grapes in the freezer.

I have taken in one half cup of Eden pumpkin seeds and one cup of coffee with two Tonight I am only proud of my abbreviated parts.

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