NOTES ON THE ISSUE

Why should bodies end at the skin,  or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin? 
- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto 


​loading contours

when i imprinted  on to my self
(and yours)
my remote control got stuck in the cloud. . .

but, if i am a robot why
am i still so sweaty?

don't forget your tan lines. . . body!

(a body is a thing /that does a dance and turns a page
and ten out of eleven times misses badly.)

i haven't even peed yet! i say like a body

yet i feel so deep
that I can't

command thy. . . 


(only-to-a-word deep body?)
(holy-enough deep body?)

my body is trying to imitate my 2nd mind 
impress my newer self

poor body
BOWDOWN body

im 2 goth for my liver
2 rad for my eyelashes

undone by my own bones. . . 

at least im content
in being
an emptiness

 so covered in hair that im 
see-through, i say like a body

hold on, we're missing something. . . 

my body loves
hates
taunts
teases 

me

we're  missing
an every-which-way out. . .

who cares i have a bodilessness in my body!

a frame (work)
of mind

so ask it
are you smarter than brainyquotes.com?

*body

breaks itself
makes up an it of itself
that hurts* that is

the real fracture. waking up to:
why do my  nails have wrists in them?

(i do that when i'm nervous, i say like a body)

how do i get my stomach to look more like a tortoise shell?
can i say my if i just saw it somewhere?

i want to be as here as a turtle.

New York Fashion Week 
sweats
skin 
 bodies &
glitter

i mean i want a face that plumps and deflates
like a sky-sense

can a nakedness touch another and still be so itself?
are you ever really past 
undies?

poetry is full of uncomfortable nudists
what are you wearing?

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big <3 to Christina Drill who helped us read for this issue.


big <3 to Aarati Akkapeddi who did the cover art for this issue. The images are digital blind contour drawings of our contributors (or whoever's body/face came up when we googled their names).