BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by Peter Moysaenko, features poetry by Heather Christle and art by Clayton F. Merrell.

Heather Christle executes a sublime and shining lowliness. Fusing an arch jocularity to epiphanic neurosis, her poems take their panting repose within nexuses of concession and censure, volition and void, the aha and the blah-blah, laying forth drop-dead visions of the living’s gritty triumph of and over nothing, of and over our whatever, this weirdo here and now.

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Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an erasure poem by Heather Christle, selected by Daniel Moysaenko.

Elegy for Neil Armstrong, Pt. 2

mankind                           is fine
and powdery, I can pick it up
loosely with my toe

                              I can

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