DIN (I viii - x)​

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viii. 

Green, shadow

 

Intersect green, light, shadow

(p)ast f-

uture sound invent

material     Immaterial

 

 

—

 

bone skin dark/dark

 

Crowd passes with women compressing women, men compressing, stench infuses women and women and men and men and neither

 

neither,

light  /  dark

dark   /

 

ix.

Green shadow intersect green light shadow 

marking

 

Shadow of the

glass and steel Shadow of the matter cutting particles of

 

( air,

Cutting particles of light, strike being cloudscape swath the cold blue and color drain

 

— )

 

body, black

 

inked body, red ink body ensnaring all-time body

 

wrap your body in black and wail. Forgiving hexametric movement of the vibration at the top of the vocal cord    —    wail

 

Given

 

Birth   —

 

to    — 

 

(  air, cutting particles of life, your life encircling

layer upon layer, object moving to immobile moving to

incessant,

 

static,

 

—

 

x.

 

It is a black

Cloak.

 

Upon the shoulders it is a black

 

silk 

 

veil ……

 

( it )                                        is a

 

black cloak. Black man presiding on

 

black                              scene.

 

It is.

 

Suffering the witch to live.

 

(  you saw the sunshine over the

monstrous stone, brick and cement. Saw it

blotted out. This is your neighborhood this

 

is

 

——       )

 

a black cloak. Hardened limbs, remitting weakened

 

limbs.

Misshapen

 

torso.                         Soon

 

the mandibles

 

clenched

as they are around the skull

 

of some                               lesser

 

animal

 

( Itch )

 

——   the

 

cheek of

 

Sunburnt

 

face [ , ]

 

——

 

Soon

 

knuckles reddened by smashing on the hard wood,

 

soles

 

(d) amplened  →  the

 

footprint

 

lead

 

exit

 

aroma

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(s)nap

 

Criminal

 

in absentia

 

corrode

 

ink

 

Soon

 

cappadonna moore

 

on a jagged

 

Surface

 

metropole

 

on a lane

 

in my colors it

 

is

 

poly-

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Philadelphia, 2023

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Bessam Idani is an artist and political organizer from New York. He is the author of Self, Under the Sun, and the upcoming novel, The Sword and the Neck; and the composer or co-composer of three albums, "Nondivision," "Heart, Mind," and "Again-Awakening-Am." His long poem, "Din," will be published by NINSHAR Press. His work as a visual artist is also featured on ninshar.art. He lives and works in Philadelphia.

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https://bessamsam.bandcamp.com/

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