Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Translocations

We de-notate and detonate. At breakpoint, we will close our eyes.
We replicate abnormally. We suffer from the rational.
We radiate excessively, fold into flats then flex our thighs.
We cycle then proliferate. We implicate, psychologize.

We replicate abnormally. We suffer from the rational.
Both balanced and unbalanced, we will call ourselves reciprocal.
We cycle then proliferate. We implicate, psychologize.
Our eyes will form before the splice. Our brains will not be typical.

Both balanced and unbalanced, we will call ourselves reciprocal.
Our arms are short. Our legs are long. Our sex will be consensual.
Our eyes will form before the splice. Our brains will not be typical:
Both fibrate and synovial, homologous and cauterized.

Our arms are short. Our legs are long. Our sex will be consensual.
We radiate excessively, fold into flats then flex our thighs:
Both fibrate and synovial, homologous and cauterized.
We de-notate and detonate. At breakpoint, we will close our eyes.


Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

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Lederer, Katy. “Translocations.” Issues in Science and Technology 40, no. 2 (Winter 2024): 30–31. https://doi.org/10.58875/YEIZ8951

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