Bone Conduction
i know your voice as slaughterhousei know your shape as serrated crescendo i know our names as they curse the curve of time and rot within empirei know your kiss as pockmarked silence a split…
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Quenton Baker
Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing, Jubilat, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus and elsewhere. They were a Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and received a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. They are the author of ballast (Haymarket Books, 2023) and the beast comes to you as smoke (forthcoming in 2027, Haymarket Books).
The Body Precipitates Fault
a shore without memory is a shoreme without skin is a visual aid for what a human is notmy veins alphabetize when they meet open airmarrow unfurls into pure datamy foreign rutilant organs are pulled…