"why are you so angry" by Haley King
Allison Hummel | Prediction
Meteorological services will
emit. Exhortations to me, to you
in your long sleeves, to everyone
else along the skidding
edge and inland too.
Big waves will hook
above our heads and roofs
in a really threatening froth
of saline.
I used to say, someone is for sure going to
surf those big waves at the end of the world.
All barrel, it’s all that we’ll remember.
But now I’m not certain.
Too much depends on too many
things. We might all be shelling
nuts for the ritual plate
without any more time to spend grasp-
ing toward experience.
Clothing the night with prayer to
wake up the day.
And surprised, most of us, to find
another rhythm in struggle,
when the only thing
that still floats is time
emit. Exhortations to me, to you
in your long sleeves, to everyone
else along the skidding
edge and inland too.
Big waves will hook
above our heads and roofs
in a really threatening froth
of saline.
I used to say, someone is for sure going to
surf those big waves at the end of the world.
All barrel, it’s all that we’ll remember.
But now I’m not certain.
Too much depends on too many
things. We might all be shelling
nuts for the ritual plate
without any more time to spend grasp-
ing toward experience.
Clothing the night with prayer to
wake up the day.
And surprised, most of us, to find
another rhythm in struggle,
when the only thing
that still floats is time
Allison Hummel is based in Los Angeles. Her poetry has recently appeared in Annulet: A Journal of Poetics and JMWW. Recent fiction can be found in Bloodletter Magazine.
Haley King, also known by their artist name GRVNGE LESTAT, is a Chicago based LGBTQ+ mixed media artist who primary uses illustrative methods to construct their body of work and combines that with digitally manipulating their own photography to achieve an effort to create their artistic world that houses themes of hauntingly provoking atmospheres.
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