Four Elsewheres

(Image description: A graffiti of a woman’s face with a rose in her hair and a rainbow ribbon stretched across)

After Bhanu Kapil : “To write the disaster as a mode of revision: detection, containment, recovery, reconstitution. Translation: 4 kinds of grief.”

Detection

“Coherence is mutilation. I want disorder.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train”

J is in Wyoming and in one of the pictures she posts, the river she wades through is a song of crumbled…