edges crossing over her

intonation  

I have always known that it must be poetry for all writings confronts with a “why are you writing this” 

and only poetry poses it as a real question.  

precarious divisions  

name/sun:  

always on the way to the nocturnal side however subtle 

even in the golden most day of a day  

edges rising as silver linings  

around time  

not spaces  

 a constant search for something you can crossover and be entirely someone else  

funny that she has been given the name after  

“the tender warmth of a spring sun”  

thawing  

words as relics  

does not stand still in their shape or intention  

like la fève  

or pie birds  

murmuration when you miss  

your eye fixed  

on a constant escape  

sun/time: 

the heat  

kissing your back  

was a lightening  

not a thunder  

any borders are one mobile reality 

 

which you could never looking into  

until the shadow of your body  

becomes an interjection  

to the line  

of speech  

said the sun  

later known as a spelling  

epistemological  

of time.  

time/speed: 

the best way to contemplate, or to get into the way of time is to sit on the inside of a shadow and wait 

for the sun to run into you, then leave you alone again  

so you would notice a concrete speed of your thoughts  

so you could become a placeholder  

in hindsight, also a bouquet of flowers in hands  

next to the memory of that time  

thus doubling it.  

speed = space/time  

so your thoughts gain physicality. 

like a shiny piece of honeyed toast  

ready to make a sound  

or decay  

edges  

crossing  

over you  

as you begin to resemble yourself in a memory you look into your own face and for the first time noticing your lashes no longer opaque 

waving both a hello and goodbye every frame and you feel so much lighter so much less agency in terms of the distance between action 

and its effect in your hand in reality and now here is where poetry seeps in like water  

(sip)  

time=passive space  

or everything  

but this allusive periphery  

from which radiates the stars both within and without  

(astrologically, time IS the position of stellar bodies and our constant realignment with them thus time is space mapped onto space. I was short  of sleep for two weeks so my room is shrinking. I could not stop its becoming smaller until I peeled an orange whose vibrant scent reminds me  harvest and I had to get out of bed and shut the curtains.)  

me, a landscape  

from the view point  

of a dandelion  

set free parsing  

time  

on the wind  

all numbers in a history already engraved.  

(a brilliant husky slowly crossed over me as if an alternative shade of grass) 

watching someone leave  

on a merry-go-round  

and return  

the appearance of a one-way street  

when you look to its front and back  

speed/exit:  

maybe that is why I keep feeling the urge to move, faster with my limbs or language: 

so I could catch my soul  

the edge  

constantly sailing away:  

exist=constant exiting  

I think of that time when I was doing a lot of playwriting and could not help misspelling exit for exist and now the scene is turning lucid. 

(The sun sliding still west)  

That it was more of an oracle than a mistake.


Susie (9) Zhu

煦, 9 or Susie Zhu is a fond listener for infra-ordinary tidal movements in contemporary life and a multi-hyphenated multi-media artist-poet who works with language, sound, time, obscurity, printed and ephemeral matters and more. 9 is also the (proclaimed anonymous) founder of butter*rabbit*press and the author of 5 books of hybrid poetry and 9 artist’s books.

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