Unlikely 2.0


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Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
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A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Three Specimens by Sam Schild

Caudata

sucking, yolkin eggs invertebrates after breaking, fins swim from backs tell along lengthening tails distance traveled since from beginning nose she's absorbing pheromones, taking spermatophores, amplexused, encapsulated swimmings sinuous swashlings, penisless production yielding long flaccid yet limbers with fins does this make me less baby? have a head, too, one following: legs, oars, other autonomating instruments insures something. internal eyes see mixing larvae with feather gills and stories, pages illustrated and sentences, fins, mom and dad, reverse metamorphosized breathing through skin, dad and mom, forgot aquatic being mostly at eft stage, (except neotenics, adulted babies fuck swimming) remember briefly mom and dad cycling breathing air smell to eat and interacting, implanting these. likening digit inconsistencies to beings, back to front, five to four, four to three. attacked less when shadowy and savory like rotteries; night activity still mostly, stilling. secretes colory warring, unken position warning, if getting preyed away dark slippery place oval oranges and red, we've bitter sauced and tick. patience sees preying easy: flicked tongue sustenanswered just what's needed. secret, I've, just waiting, be'n. resembling our amphibia predecessors most closely kept over cycling, splashing, in un spaces, being.




Haplochromini

Mbuna brilliant among d' rock pilings, highlighting Lake Malawi feet. Utaka greys neutrally escaping fingerling predation, adult freeswimmers known they're watching know they're preying know their gregarious flocking protects, partime, part i'me? wastebasket taxon type genus might be bricks piled for this tribe in d' gene in d' great lakes ‘f Ahfrica, pied up, you like it sweet, or cheese? living, or crunchy? Victoria, free hands carried nice to eat you not returned, that was '54, Lates growing out of Victoria's arms fishing industrialists grew, ‘n ‘d banks, growing. Mbuna, detritus preferring with two sets of jaws, eaten, bottom matter sunken. 200 Haplochromini species slepped below imprinting history, times before invaded homes when adaptive radiation spread genusbutter to toastniches, before bipedality lead to choking detritus zones, those places where the yeast went explode. effluence our confluence home, we float, transformed to exports. in dust are we all really extinct? 100's swimp among algal blooms, water hyacinth, runoff from the Kagera supplying bodies—analogous to the endemic one percent left—floating bodies, sunken bodies, piling.




Stylommatophora

sucking feet bodies locamobility, peers tbe following mucus, tentic le eyes, spect ate lubricated retro and digestible prose, biomassive festivals vita this flaccid thrusting penis celebrating spins perpetually vitalized globule of knit cycles. proned desiccation leaving below post precipitation. se mantle crete shut op, er, culum for some hide, fingernail protein covering the door to calcium carbonate whorl house. pallial lung pulling air unlike gilled marinal counterparts pulling through what's mostly them, inthrough respertory opening. macerate decay with denticled radula ribbon shaped perpetuates cyclical rhythm of leaving trees and muscular waves under peds. torsion makes digestion, anus, and reproducing. mucusy penile stimulus package analogues breathing, narratives spoken reason. Inundation and desiccation can't si, mutate, yes? due highly, sodium, concentrated, withering this toasted being cornucopia—mucus can't feign hydration longer in orthocircularity. while water requires excessive heat to catalyze spontaneous gaseous transition, end, will, be, for these gastropodic beings



Haplochromini: not to be confused with Haplochromis, the type genus of the tribe Haplochromini which also includes Aulonocara, Astatolilapia, and Chilotilapia.
Stylommatophora: The clade Stylommatophora consists of terrestrial snails and slugs. But, while common named terrestrial snails and slugs, informal group Pulmonata, clade Styllommatophora, appear to superficially resemble sea slugs, informal group Opisthobranchis, (mostly belonging to) clade Nudibranchia, in overall body form, any ranking system which classifies these marine gastropods with Stylommatophora creates a polyphyletic grouping—one whose members’ last common ancestor is not a member of the group. There have been numerous attempts to reconcile the issues with classification and ranking within the class Gastropoda such as this one, the most recent and leading system is that which is set forth by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi in their paper Classification and Nomenclature of Gastropod Families, the system referenced here.1 Bouchet and Rocroi use clades to codify taxa, but do not rank them above the superfamily; and they use the traditional Linaean system for ranking all taxa below the superfamily rank. This creates a hybrid system consisting of informal groups and clades. So, while the clade Heterobranchia contains both informal groups Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia, clades Stylommatophora and Nudibranchia do not share a last common ancestor, and therefore cannot be included together here.



1 Bouchet, Philippe, and Jean P. Rocroi, eds. "Classification and Nomenclature of Gastropod Families." Malacologia (2005). Web.


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Sam Schild is a writer, amateur triathlete, and social activist who currently lives near Chicago, Illinois. He is looking for a partner to join him on an upcoming Pacific Coast bicycle tour from Oregon to southern California. Contact him if you are interested. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in Anything, Anymore, Anywhere, BlazeVOX, EOAGH, Otoliths, Pinstripe Fedora, and there. He can be reached at sjshchild AT gmail DOT com.


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Omar Azam
2010-02-27 19:09:54

Very free language. Fun. Reminds me of epic:

Bomb them til they know their place, until they show their face, until
they mix their race, until their smile embrace, until they hold their
brace, hold them up in a mirror and shit out a pan of soap and fight
their meat-eating cavities and fresh-faced doe-eyed sisters
our bitches are football-sized appetites and women too busy and anxious
to fuck long for a chador over their head and a daddy
and a brother and a husband who beats the street on horse
back river to let me call my house a home.