Pressed into
a garment
so vocal I I am wired
with voices
the spiral voices
of the locusts–
the gyre
of carnal It girls
from every era
a millions circuits, a million
thanks
chords of statistics
rap up my spine
through a field
of moving spines –thanks–
neck yanked forward– thanks, thanks
bare
seconds jerk off, mouth open
current of mud and ash
I spit it out
all the semen of the world, dust bunnies rot,
thanks thanks
Image Credits: Dan Zen
Vidhu Aggarwal
Vidhu Aggarwal’s poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building, video, and graphic media, and draw mythic schemas from popular culture and ancient texts. Her poetry book The Trouble with Humpadori (2016) imagines a cosmic mythological space for marginalized transnational subjects. Poems from Humpadori were listed in the top 25 from Boston Review in 2016 and appeared on Sundress Publications Best Poetry of 2016 list. Avatara, a chapbook from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, is situated in a post-apocalyptic gaming world where A.I.s play at being gods. A Djerassi resident and Kundiman fellow, she teaches at Rollins College.
