PORTAL POEMS

ZOE BREZSNY

 

UNTITLED

can you see the row of lights

vibrating from crescent city

floating in the air / hanging by a thread

before the century

stimulus key turned

in pleasure

then thrown into the game’s sexless sky

cash in on

demon claws

you and me as inanimate objects

safeway chocolate chip cookies

pesticides mixed

quietly with essential nutrients

tip toe past

periphery of a collective hallucination

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and Depression Screener

calcified blind spots

form mosaic patterns

What’s inside you what’s

looking in

for critical cellular data

If I am approved,

How do I claim it?

tear swept

Earth

salt lick

The kitten pulls on her belly button ring in the dimly lit room

watched from afar

EYE TO EYE DELIRIUM

AFTER SOFIA SINIBALDI

What’s a scam and what’s for real

lactic acidosis and gut feelings

my twin flame

reddit subthreads predict

molten tears down clown cheeks

ways of seeing in the dark

scan

a thousand years marked on a tree

the size of the eyes

between a cherry and a walnut

A humming swarm maps

a surrounding environment

mineral reservoirs

my reward system

visions of a new world

a coded pattern left in a driveway

dayglo X

hot concrete in the empty street

my invisible friends

warm and wet behind the eyes

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Violation #83817543

Microsoft asks where do you want to go today

Love scene in the sea

Anxiety washed over by the moonlight

the grit of salt

a pure love

fucking the ocean

twilight series on the plane

portals to other places in the universe

Time square Olive Garden

A celebrity named reality winner

A sacred site

in a rental car parking lot

Soft bank promises to build

a more connected, efficient,

joyful world

Humanity has been following a program for millions of years

The universe is infinite which means

there are infinite possibilities

simultaneously knowing

this while depressed

You shine in the body

The sun shines deeper than thought

I see friends coming out of drug stores

And want to tell them their hidden talents

not so hidden at all

just by the society we live in

they can’t see them

doesn’t matter in five years

doesn’t matter

There’s only love and fear

A fountain flows on Seneca Avenue

I forgot

the sensual breeze

of the veil blowing across

lifting my depression

ZOE BREZSNY is a poet and organizer who lives in New York. She curated Parallax, a reading series of contemporary poetry at Hauser & Wirth Gallery. She co-runs the project space Gern en Regalia in the Lower East Side. Listen to archives of her radio show at wfmu.org.