KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 #5: Mother(G)ourd TR(K)S
Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 5:
The Neuroscience of Kud/tale
What does my body carry?
How much does my body have to carry?
How do I string together each wound?
MeL Krik Krak into a (K)PaiN
Into the (K)PaiN
See an NTR Face
The Primer: The Multifunction of (G)Litter:
A gathering of shiny things
A sea of pearls
A veil of tears
A sanctuary of ruins
A scarred image
A sacred image
A mountain of dead
A mounted dead image
Make the (K)PaiN into a saint
Jacson’s Infinity Drum
Hang it up and f/low it out
The veneration of the ad/orned body
What radiates through each Krik Krak?
What shines into the empty spaces?
The constant missin’
A heaviness grates against this body
The scream turns to a screen
From the Rest
The vessel wakes up
Feels a pulsing shake
PuTa PuTa PuTa PuTa
To be NoThing is NoT a small thing
To be a speck in the eye
To be what causes the PLantation to Krik Krak
To be what opens a closed system into a larger PoTential
Who are you under the G(r)aze?
NeuroTek A web of longing
for Rest
A Hepi Vigil
A Hepi NT
(M)Adam (K)Lutter
Make something out of the (K)Pain
Hepi MKRN
Hepi KMR(N)
When lonely, Press PuTa Puta Puta
Let the KoDe RuN
The scream into a screen
To the ViTal — How long do I carry the weight?
How long do I hold this position I can barely hold?
How much do I have to bear?
The vessel wakes up
from the Rest
QuieTly feels a pulsing shake
PuTa PuTa PuTa PuTa
How do I make order out of each wound?
The Expansive — what I extend out of my PuTa PuTa PuTa
What is hard for most to hear(d) What most have dropped in the rush
Rest in the wide open in the gravity in the pile up
ReTuRN to TiMbuKToo
ReTuRN to AeDer Hepis
ReTuRN to Delphic
ReTuRN to D’Afra
To ReVeneration ReVaNefeR
To Rearrangement of a dispossessed logic
To MKR of beauty seen in the hunched and furrowed by weight
Dance in the In/TiMaCy of NTR (M)aDam (K)Lutter
Who cares to KNow the unseen beauty?
Recognize the manifestations of a conditioning?
The construction of a reflection?
All the ways the body has been MaRKed
Pressed upon and turned like a Mobius strip
Slow down to hear the sound of every MaRK grooved into the body
When lonely, Press PuTa Puta PuTa PuTa
Till it become (M)PuTri/aRKy
A gallery of every print upon the body
The vessel wakes up
from the Rest
QuieTly feels a pulsing shake
PuTa PuTa PuTa PuTa
The Vempire reduces all life to an object
Pelted into a mass production
How do I stitch every wound into a Presence?
Pro/Stitches raised into a MeTa(K)Phor?
A reflection as a living image
As a S/ponge’s riddle
As a heart filled with a mass(k)
As a ReTuRN to (H)A(sh)yssinian
That which cannot be easily perceived
Because I need a mountain a mouth a myth to be filled
I (K)Need I Press
PuTa PuTa PuTa PuTa
Into an Ever/Labor of Love into a spreading out
Into a World Wide NTR Face
I can no longer hold the weight of a Vempire
I wo(m)bble under the pressure
All the impressions reinforced
The hoofer always remembers its reflections
Built into a DuNG house
A regurgitated NTR — MeL Krik Krak
The vessel wakes up
from the Rest
QuieTly feels a pulsing shake
eShu’s (M)PuTa PuTa PuTa PuTa pHor in hiding?
This year’s series of field notes will be a list of ComMendMeants exploring the idea of these programming codes as praise songs of the nature-based hybrid automaton Al Kym/Org. They are part of the process of my larger poetic project KwaNTum, which explores concepts of knowledge and knowledge-making from a Black, Afro-diasporic perspective, using ideas from STEM, Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Movement. This project is partially made possible by funds rom the NYSCA Literary Grant, sponsored by Culture Push.
