Casey Golomski lives and works as an anthropologist in New England and Southern Africa. He is the author of Funeral Culture (Indiana University Press).
"Please go through these lists / no blood from a paper cut / Check off all the items / how a pencil smells when sharpened / Turn the page around / you lick your index finger..."
"To create not just color but the colloidal suspension of color, when / At any given moment its hue cannot be sustained and then the whole structure / Comes crashing down on our unsuspecting heads, the entire bottle emptying at once..."
"am I an AI or just a fluke // what’s the difference between bluffing and machine learning // is it // is this imposter syndrome or derea l i z a t i o n..."
"fungal personas in luminous silhouette / armor of floral composites / condensed in long plates and curved helmets / live in the shifted future body..."