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Since 1996 Volume XXI
Daniel Y.
Harris
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Daniel Y. Harris is the author of Hyperlinks of Anxiety
(Cervena Barva Press, 2013), The New Arcana
(with John Amen, New York Quarterly Books, 2012), Paul
Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue (with Adam
Shechter, Cervena Barva Press, 2010; picked by The
Jewish Forward as one of the 5 most important Jewish
poetry books of 2010) and Unio Mystica
(Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009.) He is the President
of the Board of Directors of The New York Quarterly
Foundation. His website is www.danielyharris.com |
Lodge 99*
Yoking the frieze of its parabola and
rosaries,
the elect see Eddy motion the Mongol’s
tengri
with a lariat to cluster a hadith:
a pitchblende
rescuing the Most High from
tatterdemalions.
The belched words loaf. Eddy tweets: “a
sweet
zombie Jesus zipperhead cocks a procreant
urge,”
from a hyperactive account. The elect
become
a flashmob and gangrape a bronze mascot.
Eddy
admires his whatchamacallits and
zomviruses,
admires himself as throwback or new coming
in the postseason with fireworks.
Overriding
is impossible. It’s a rerun of a cable
program
called Night of Lodge 99, filmed in
Reykjavík
Iceland. Eddy sneers. We have betrayed
him.
Excerpt from the emerging manuscript
The Rapture of Eddy Daemon
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