BENDING LIGHT IN MY SISTER'S BEDROOM
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Hypothesis
of a new galaxy: mobility as magnetism, a flux field of particles deflected, or an adornment to live inside: cosmic dust & clouds of gas that fill; a real-brown wig, yellow-sun strapped heels (her only pair) ― a singularity, a universe in my entirety. Here, I am half-self, or doubled: both her & myself & myself without her. I am made beneath the oppressive fluorescent light of hospital cafeterias ― I am made of fluorescence: glowing but not in the way, at the start, I imagined in her bedroom. Obliteration of noise. A gravitational lensing. Distribution of plates & cells. Something so balled-up & blood -close it expands into light. It expands faster than anyone can hold. |
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Daniel T. O’Brien is a poet and freelance editor from New York. His poetry and reviews have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The American Literary Review, Boston Review, Prelude, Public Pool, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Kate Greene holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. During her graduate studies at Yale, she worked as a Museum Educator at the Yale University Art Gallery and went on to serve as Assistant Curator of Public Education. She has been a guest critic and lecturer at various institutions such as Bard College, Wesleyan University, Amherst College, Drew University, Lesley University College of Art and Design, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, and festivals both nationally and internationally. ROMAN NVMERALS published a limited edition book of her series Pyrotechnics in the fall of 2016. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.