A CROWD IS FORMING
by Daniel Tahoun


        A pink sky is wrapping around the broad banana tree leaves. They are shining black. The pool is filling with blue light. Besides the pool, the green hose is lying tangled. The surface of the canal is the altar, accumulating trash. An image is circling. The ceiling fan is spinning in my phone screen’s reflection. A purple sky is wrapping around the broad banana tree leaves. The silhouette of a road is turning out of view, surrounded by streetlights. The ceiling fan is spinning inside the sliding glass door’s reflection. Sprays of an indigo sky are flickering through the shredded edges of the broad banana tree leaves. A green light is turning on from the bottom of the canal, flattening all of the ripples. The tangles are slowly twisting loose as the hose gets dragged back into the hose reel.

        There is nothing we can do. There is nothing we can do here.
















Daniel Tahoun is a poet from Miami, FL based in New York City working at the intersection of environmental collapse and multimedia expansion. His work utilizes an "apoetics", similar to atonality in music, that moves away from traditional notions of narration, story, and form. His goal is not for the poem to depict something, but for the poem to be its own depiction, to be visually and experientially inseparable from the feeling it conveys.

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