Miranda Mellis : DRIVE SATISFACTION

 

 

 

He opens his mouth
He is a mouth!
A tongue in a mouth!
Licking stone. 

Can stars be habitat?
Habitus biomagnified.
Planetary magnitude
Stars alive, truth is structured like fiction. 

Today is think the lack day.
Make spiral calendar life plan
On big curves
There’s no wound in the absolute. 

Something missing drives us on
Loss is the interpretation of that.
Desire is interpreted as lack
Is ontological in that way. 

Absence is most generative
Puts you into play
The scent of fantasy
An impulse in the staging. 

What’s missing is lack
Repairing what was never there
Seascape with an ear
Early deprivation 

Has a mythical quality
Fidelity to the analytic event
Semblance means sense of the real
Experiment with ways out. 

The symptom: it doesn’t work.
It’s the exceptional thing
It’s the banana peel
On which the structure slips. 

Hospitality for the symptom is an ethos.
Something to do with the mind
A donkey tethering post
Or you could do nothing for thirty seconds 

You can’t ignore cause and effect
But then there’s an event.
Iron wall sitting means: stop at will
Move the assemblage point.

 

 

 

 

Miranda Mellis is the author of the novel Crocosmia (forthcoming, Nightboat Books); three novellas, The Revisionist, The Spokes, and The Quarry; and a short-story collection, None of This Is Real. Her poetry and nonfiction books and chapbooks include The Revolutionary, Demystifications, Unconsciousness Raising, and Materialisms. She is the co-author of two book-length dialogues: The Instead with Emily Abendroth and Passing Through with Rick Moody. With Tisa Bryant and Kate Schatz, she was a founding co-editor at The Encyclopedia Project. She grew up in San Francisco and now lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where she is a professor at The Evergreen State College. Read her intermittencies intermittently at: https://youareinlovewiththeimpossible.substack.com/