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[WHAT IS THE WOOLY BULLY & WILL IT COME AGAIN]

—I liked it better when it was all AM radio

& there was wind in my face // left hand steering //
right hand punching chrome keys the size of gumdrops
so I could be this thing for some length of speed & pop song
minutes & then another—right turn—no—left—
so I had to improvise // it was somebody else’s film // a dj
soundtrack // questions ringing—what is // in fact //
the perfect ratio—time v. lightning // did body really
sing // was feedback god // all I had was this five-banded
spectrum—feints & attitudes // a feel for road // engine &
road // curves // dips that were spring-loaded at certain
speeds // —O perfectly contoured earbuds —O field of hairs
alive w/playlist—where is that neural network now //
a body beside me so it was communal— a testosterone rush //
musk // whole flags of it spreading out of the windows
because it was summer & we were blasting // open // silk

worm cities aflame w/twilight—lanterning the straightaways

[schema geometrica] [W/JOHN KEATS’ DEATH MASK & A PYRAMID & A CAT]

—O Awaiting Tomb-of-Digital-

Presence here is my face—uncanceled—like a forever stamp—
to mark the searchable parts of heaven // here my deleted files
for the dark—my avatar so embedded there in a hurricane of code
& algorithms not even Keanu Reeves could find me // —O Neo
it will happen soon—I will slip that first matrix—mother—
into this other womb—a band of love & fame there are so many
photographs of me w/poems—as if I were a pharaoh
among the hundred thousand other kings & queens //
here are the hidden rooms of my obsessions—& two or three
photos—forgive me—of my cat // here is Keats’ death mask //
alive I loved them all // dead they will be the fortune
the living spend to fund this stream—wraithdata stacked like urns
beneath the sun // —O Capacity you will be that sun // my
Permanently Benign & Youthful Presence // my Osiris // my viscera

engorged w/surge // in rapture

[BOX OF LIGHT W/EARLY A-BOMB TEST] or [PORTRAIT OF MY KAIJU
BIRTH AS DIRECTED BY ISHIRO HONDA]

—I had visions when I was worm & so I put them everywhere // in
green salt water // w/eyelid scribbles // whether this is me being born
or just after I can never tell // but I was radioactive // blue waves
rippling on yellow // yolk of the brain already taking its double shape //
echo & echo // so it heard itself in the dark // it mirrored the dark &
dreamed // if a fetus dreams // it felt soothed // cable out of the belly
tethering blood & blood // nothing to really see // boy part
not even boy yet // nothing to sell // not even girl // what exactly
is the price of a single heartbeat // eyes // a pair of lungs // Big World
already matted // tower for tower // people running // decay setting in //
the war cold // boxed in concrete // —O here it comes now—that blade
of light to melt the eyes // singe lungs // air rushing out of me until
it was voiced // I heard it // I was its twin & so I sang // I sang to Mo-th-ra

(These poems are from the book schema geometrica from Green Linden Press.)

Also by Dennis Hinrichsen: "[Alzheimer's] [raw footage] [afternoon]," "[zona pellucida]," "Fincher-esque," "[Alzheimer's] [anatomy of an action as lost text],"[poem w/first line after the Ojibway]," "[marriage is the abattoir & a girlfriend just another set of lips to smoke with], "[POEM THAT ENDS UP ON ITS KNEES IN CHINA IN A PAIR OF LEVI'S]," "[mosaic] [divina commedia] [with a Boxer in It]," "[Waiting for the End of the World with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass]," "[Too Young to Die] [Too Young to Rock ‘n’ Roll]"
In the store: [q / lear] (chapbook), schema geometrica (book), Flesh-plastique (book)
Interviews: a conversation about his chapbook [q / lear], a conversation about Flesh-plastique

schema geometrica is Dennis Hinrichsen’s ninth full-length collection of poetry. His most recent work includes [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press for Skin Music, the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize for Rip-tooth, the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize for Kurosawa’s Dog and the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize for Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights as well as the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award. Work of his also can be found in two anthologies from Michigan State University Press, Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, and RESPECT: An Anthology of Poems on Detroit Music. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where from May 2017–April 2019, he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.

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