Charles Borkhuis’s books of poems include Afterimage (2007), Savoir-fear (2003), and Alpha Ruins (2000). His plays Barely There, Present Tense, and Flipper were produced in New York in 2013.

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and when you have left the room
who has gone

and when you have pivoted slyly
down the hole

who is still with me
caught again misbehaving

as if thought could lean
against the shoulder of a chair

and curl inside the fleshy pulp
of wood spinning in the mind

neither yours nor mine but subjectivity
sans subject traveling the open circuit

Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007), Mercury (2011), Thursday(2012), and The Origin of the World (2014) written for Semiotext(e)'s contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial.TELEPHONE (2009), an Obie-winning play, was commissioned and produced by The Foundry Theatre. Other theatrical works include LORNA (2013) and MORTAL KOMBAT (2014), both written and performed with Jim Fletcher. Reines has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, The New School and has led ANCIENT EVENINGS, an experiment in liturgical reading, for two seasons in New York. In Fall 2014, Reines will be a fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.

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