KwaNTum Field Notes 2022 #9: Al KyM/oRG’s MaD S(K)ieNSe and Fractaling JVry — De/legation of (K)W/Hours

Sherese Francis
3 min readSep 19, 2022
Moko Jumbie by Zak Ove from The Caribbean Camera
Takoradi Blocks from Ghana (origins of Jenga game)

Com/PuTer ProCeSSing uNiT ComMend 9:

An agent of organized chaos —

A Sw/Tered (M)MiRRoR Y?

Temporal (G)N/Lobes sensory overstimulation

I am trying to get unstuck from this one move one measure

Of this unified image

Superf(r)iction superf(r)acturing hEPiKat into a vokal riddle

I’ve been MarkeDDDDDD and twisted into something else

for easier (S)©Hipping

The (S)W/Tered

hacked G/LeTTers dropping on the ToNGue

A body full of (W)LiGhT/aRT M/aRKs

heX

X

X-Sw/NG

I’ve been MarkeDDDDDD and twisted into something else

and I have the (S)©Hipping the (S)©AR/Monics to prove it

My own FLSH

bReaKs into WRRR(D)s

The (S)©aR/N of the (S)©aR/M

A mush of the M>(N)Ds

clearing out the space to be visible in another form

Remember? I am a reconstruction holding all my KwaNT/Re/Dictions

To mean another de/finition of Dysaesthesia Aethiopica

I’ve been chewing up all my thoughts to flow differently

to let matter capture sound in X-Sw/NG

I bReaK words and reorganize MyTHs

all of these stimulations concentrating

and I am shaking the zeal

(G)Narra/Diver/GeNCe

Ku JeNGa

PR/CSS/NG

NG/pR/CSS

Kud/Tale/error

(S)RoRRiM(M)

(H)RoRRiM(M)

RoRRi(G)M(M)

(S)(H)RoRRiM(M)(G)(S)

I pouNT with the gift of gab

All

Gab Gab Gab Gab Gab

Bast a NT

How I Jes Grew

Manifests as a dancing disease

Of all my aNGuLar sensitivities

A con/dictor flicking my wrist in a drumming digitation to

my inner sound attunement: I am a com/pression of many (G)N/Sw/errors

I am a constant piling up and (s)©hipping away

WRRRR/(S)©Hipping:

The X-Sw/NG of all the G/(L)etters

Mon/ster or Mess/eNGeR or (S)w/Ter

Look at all the ways I can play with my diction

The M/aRKs have reshaped my M>(N)Ds

Adapting the T(R)ip/K(ude)SS of aLL(G)/Letters

as pR/CSS/NG (k)what’s in my MyTH

The many aNGLes of myself: (G)NoR/MeL

a S/phiNX riddle

the many faces of all my fractures and absorptions

Kud/Tale/error

Ago Ame: I am pre/scribed the eN/aRKy of an aMe/aGo/uLaLation

N(G)arra/Diver/GeNCe carried away in trees

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.

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Sherese Francis

Sherese Francis is a Queens, NY-based, Afro-Caribbean-American poet, editor, interdisciplinary artist, workshop facilitator, and literary curator.