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Show TO GRADUATE FERAL Ninety-three-and-a-half square inches of diploma to show four years of writing of moments, of ideas of moments, of perceptions of ideas of moments, of words of perceptions of ideas of moments. If life is experience, is learning, then moving through life and experience and learning is graduating feral, without diploma and moment-to-moment. To show a month of sunset clouds in poetry, how to reach through the stream to learn the word "ripplerock," to stop in crowds to hear car keys against house keys against keys to hotel rooms or backyard doors, to start a poem, to end this poem, to stand on a desk and without language shout of life and experience and learning, to trade framed paper and ink to the feral child and wildly breathe up life and see a moment through dust eyes, touch a moment with callous tips of dirty fingers, smell a moment with each deliberate breath, taste a moment beneath the flavors of honeycomb and locust, and hear the moment hum so many sounds outside phoneme; to learn the moment feral, then with words, to hold up hands and whisper— This, all this, is learning. Austin Anderson WEBSITE hex-magazine.com FACEBOOK HEX Magazine TWITTER @hexmagazine INSTAGRAM @hexmagazine |