Sonorella orientis
Organ Mountain talus snail
Kerry Banazek
Talus is another word for wholes and parts. This
mountain called someone else. We measure
it with our bodies. We need a lot
of help. Means we need. There is a price
for changing. And we didn’t pay it or we
did. Threshold isn’t always the best question.
Some access to eloquence is a liability. Taxonomy
is based on the latest scientific consensus available,
and is provided as general reference for interested
parties. This is bad but it is not yet the apocalypse.
We have a collective responsibility. Elasticity. Rituals
of objectivity. Fidelity to a world of slides and alibis.
Landforms associated with the crime of being
here with us include crevices. Weathering by wind
or ice or. What does anyone have anyway. I took a
name that means someone like me grew a skin
called sea and one called sight. A companion stone.
I can relate to that. I live inside the places I’ve been.
I seal myself to nearling surfaces. Epiphany is just
what a lot of people got wrong. When I say people
I mean mollusks. Never mind. Living here with
the pipes called sky. We all call rock breath. Loose
thorns a weave. Each other, touch. Actually,
we disbelieve all noise. We are safe enough to love
uncertainty.
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Kerry Banazek is an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University, where she teaches in the Rhetoric, Digital Media, and Professional Communication programs. Her research and creative work address the many ways in which technologies of vision and data management influence language use.