editor's note: the video poem above is SONG 1142 by Ryan MacDonald and Jordan Stempleman.
editor's note 2: below is how they made it.
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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hey, write me up a quick poem wherein the moon might catch fire and fall out of space and into the ocean or onto a walking path? with love between fingers and death in the kitchen? and record yourself reading it if you can? and shoot it over asap. thanks brother
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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Song 1142
People would like to think they’re close
to being a moon that’s unscientifically
caught fire and fallen from space
into the ocean, but they’re not.
People are more mentionable than that.
They’ve got thousands of war stories
and Westerns, love between their fingers,
deaths face down in their grandparents’ kitchens.
Is peace the denial of exception?
A place can and will turn to us before it’s
turned into us, and a good send off remembers
you are never coming back.
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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sent you an email with the audio too
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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fucking perfect. and in what, 5 min??
becoming animation now
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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You gave me most of the poem
Show me when yr done
Sent from my iPhone
Sent from my iPhone
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Jan 7 (2 days ago)
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You’re right, that Panda Bear rocks. “Boys Latin” on repeat.
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Jan 8 (1 day ago)
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It’s a weird one. what do you think?
Ryan MacDonald's debut story collection The Observable Characteristics of Organisms was recently published with FC2. He is the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award. His work in art and writing has been exhibited performed or published at Notnostrums, New York Live Arts, Fast Forward Press, the Continental Review, Fiction Advocate, Fountain Studios, Flying Object and elsewhere. He teaches art and writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he received an MFA in English and an MFA in Studio Art.
Jordan Stempleman’s recent collections include No, Not Today and the forthcoming collection Wallop, both published by Magic Helicopter Press. He edits The Continental Review, runs the Common Sense Reading Series and teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.