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BENDING LIGHT IN MY SISTER'S BEDROOM

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.
Picture
Kate Greene. Full Moon, Maltman Avenue, Silver Lake, CA, 2011.

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.
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