Study No. 1: Urban Spatiality in Diaspora
Writing by Keshav Kannan
Dead jellyfish splays against green moss Depressions in the ground cradle virtuosic entrails One tine and one finger are gently pressed into the bell Clinical: time piles on time, breathes into the mass, hesitates To escape through thin, intent perforations When flaxen brick and concrete grow within moss
into moss against moss Felt is the drowsy earth reclaiming cities of mushrooms Paint peels into
Pungent fungus demarcates two grand chambers Jellyfish remains supine, bell throbbing so gently Through this lens expand both moss and hours Filling Swelling
Large, sparse domiciles blend into languid shadows Behind which stretch cats A stack of books and a menu enveloped By what is felt A blossom from either world
Placing itself against Carries the chilly sweetness Lost and found at dusk in the midst of a wooden blanket (Phycomyces stagnates, hair-like sporangia reaching) A bridge crosses a creek crosses the earth cleaved and sown it is the exhale of a thousand traversing empty and completed each consuming the other Corporeal bodies soused with melancholic mist are we