Aristilde Kirby
Riparian Forager in a Chromogenic Photoperiod
Maned
wolf licks
waterskin,
distorts image.
I feel a wave, kissing your bangs, brain pangs.
Speaking Of (Seed)
Said
wolf shits
on nests of
leafcutter ants,
who spread the lobeira’s comma seeds.
Speaking Of (Fungus)
Ants
take said
shit & help
fertilize their
royal fungal food communes in return.
Speaking Of (Lobeira, Felonwort)
Wolf
fruit forms
flower-from
plum penta-tongues
with gold anther horn. Said bloom is a poem.
Speaking Of (Lobeira, Wolf Apple)
Said
pome has
gravity,
it droops plush like
a green tomato, eggplant mouthfelt, sweet.
Speaking Of (Leucanella, Cocoon)
The
cocoon
beside holds
an urticate
crystalline unibrow, molts hemorrhage spines
Speaking Of (Leucanella, Imago On The Wall Of Your Mind)
to
fly, fur
wings, eyespots
warped irises,
a floater in your vitreous body.
OMNY
M
to F
swap? I think
the MTA's
copying me. Hare-style, I hop the turnstile.
Summoning Gemyem
Do
beset
a plate leaf
of bastard teak
with gore-phlegm diadems of ten maidens.
a strong Duke of Hell. He tells all things past, present and future, about hidden treasures, and procures the love of women, young and old, but especially maidens. He is depicted as appearing in the form of a beautiful woman with the crown of a duchess tied
around her waist, riding a camel.
from the Lesser Key of Solomon
from the Lesser Key of Solomon
Drowmoon / Wordbokeh
after Joanne Kyger
My
waxing
gibbous thumb
print of ELF face
foundation on poem called Realm of The Heart.
Biographical Statement
Aristilde Kirby is a poet & performance artist from the Bronx living in Brooklyn. She has written the book Daisy & Catherine Squared (Auric Press, 2022) & the chapbook Sonnet Infinitésimal / Material Girl (Best American Experimental Writing, 2020) Recent poem publications are with Poets.org, Dirty Mag, Ethics, & Blue Bag Press. She is writing a couple books riffing off math. You can call her Aris, like Paris without the P.