by Matt Turner
Car A gets unstuck from car B
something like metal
––it’s nothing, really
both lack shape
both have shape
and between face and skin
are gravity and origination
so there several selves
blow through
their selves
Matt Turner is the author of the poetry collections Slab Phases (BlazeVox, 2022), Wave 9: Collages (Flying Islands, 2020) and Not Moving (Broken Sleep, 2019), in addition to the prose chapbooks City/Anti-City (Vitamin, 2022) and Be Your Dog (Economy, 2022). He is co-translator, with Weng Haiying, of work by Yan Jun, Ou Ning, Hu Jiujiu and others. He lives in New York City, where he works as a translator and copy editor.
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