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Ghost Harmonics

Oscillations

Issue 01

MARY
DIPRETE

Dial Tone

<div style="white-space: nowrap;">Because fracture</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 10.30em;">is form, the tides</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.70em;">pulling the shore into</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 19.61em;">more shore, then</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 4.17em;">for what? All this</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.00em;">rising & setting, the sea breathing</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 6.13em;">into itself ? The lunar surface</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 8.83em;">is relatively non-reflective, as bright</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 5.88em;">as worn asphalt. I’ve seen</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 17.65em;">the moon ruin everything, swallow</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.88em;">whole the sun and spit back</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 2.94em;">only splinters</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 17.16em;">of light. When it undoes</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.88em;">its jaw & throws the world back out</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 3.43em;">not even the birds know where</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 7.60em;">they are. The words</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 6.37em;">un-hearable against the back</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 20.59em;">of your stilled</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 12.01em;">throat are the only way left</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 0.98em;">to say that fracture, like</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 9.56em;">love, returns. So here’s</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 8.83em;">what I still have</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.94em;">to say to you, even as un-</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 2.94em;">sayable: that even as these leaking</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 17.65em;">hands are un-fillable</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.94em;">I will hold them</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.423em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 5.88em;">out again, then</div><div style="white-space: nowrap;">again</div>

Ghost Box

Along the digital highway the digital ditches are full of digital weeds. The
digital pavement is bloodied with digital roadkill smelling of lilies.
Between the curtain and the wind: a kind of thirst. Between the body
and the dirt: a kind of thirst. The digital sun lights the digital sky. I want
the lily and the dead to make their rot translucent. I dream television
static and articulate the skeletons of deer. In the static: the shadow of
your hands. In the deer: the shadow of your hands. Hours flicker at the
edges. What I thought was a crow was a plastic bag

Highway Hypnosis

<div style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.00em;">the exits spill from the<span style="display:inline-block; width:1.188em;"></span>clot in the headlights the miles smear ash on<span style="display:inline-block; width:0.651em;"></span>last call, last services</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.84em;">horizon<span style="display:inline-block; width:15.158em;"></span>the asphalt<span style="display:inline-block; width:5.941em;"></span>open</div><div style="height: 3.00em;" aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.84em;">before the road<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.367em;"></span>& it’s both artificial &<span style="display:inline-block; width:1.214em;"></span>the black of the sky<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.126em;"></span>its slow dissolve</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10;">unhinges & swallows<span style="display:inline-block; width:4.132em;"></span>infinite<span style="display:inline-block; width:4.086em;"></span>against the black of</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 3.21em;">its tail<span style="display:inline-block; width:14.457em;"></span>the back of your</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 22.31em;">eyes</div><div style="height: 2.00em;" aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap;">the sounds you make<span style="display:inline-block; width:1.373em;"></span>the world, untangling<span style="display:inline-block; width:1.574em;"></span>everything can be,<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.871em;"></span>here is what I</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.49em;">when you think you’re<span style="display:inline-block; width:1.334em;"></span>itself in the rearview<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.867em;"></span>for a leaking<span style="display:inline-block; width:3.166em;"></span>wanted to tell you</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.08em;">un-hearable<span style="display:inline-block; width:6.033em;"></span>mirror<span style="display:inline-block; width:4.019em;"></span>moment, suspended</div><div style="height: 2.00em;" aria-hidden="true">&nbsp;</div> <div style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 0.68em;">the slur of the tires<span style="display:inline-block; width:3.023em;"></span>is the sound of<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.767em;"></span>the radio plays the<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.205em;"></span>the moon moves</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; text-align: right; margin-left: auto; width: 100%; padding-right: 1.08em;">laid over the slur of<span style="display:inline-block; width:2.311em;"></span>everyone you love<span style="display:inline-block; width:4.713em;"></span>radio<span style="display:inline-block; width:5.158em;"></span>over the moon</div><div style="white-space: nowrap; margin-top: -0.478em; display: block; position: relative; z-index: 10; padding-left: 2.80em;">the tires<span style="display:inline-block; width:5.451em;"></span>living forever</div>