Celestial shows will be visible by simply looking toward the sky.
A shout up the dumbwaiter would bring food up by pulley.
Relying on butterfly wings to survive.
Drunken monkey hyphothesis.
The practical implications of these results are somewhat limited, of course because they involve mice, not people.
The look of buttoned up Edwardian “fallishness”
No one was injured as a result of her poor decision.
For example, when a blue-square touches a pink square.
Doll-based propaganda.
Days to assemble. Months to embroider.
Acta Diurna note:
Acta Diurna is a series of sentences culled from newspapers, a daybook compressed, and a found composition arranged as a continuous narrative and cultural commentary. This book is daily news, documentary poetry, a catalogue of perspectives, a metonymical post and a global body of text. How as readers might we engage with constant streams of urgent headlines, articles and alerts? How do we interpret the countless juxtapositions between multiple lives, stories, locations and histories? Acta Diurna is an attempt to sew text into textile, to compile multi-voiced reporting and to present a collective alternative assemblage of news.
Laynie Browne’s most recent collections are You Envelop Me (Omnidawn, 2017), P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel, 2015) and Scorpyn Odes (Kore Press, 2015). Her honors include the National Poetry Series Award, the Contemporary Poetry Series Award and a Pew Fellowship. She teaches at U Penn and Swarthmore College.