Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different author will write the next stanza or section of the poem each week, to be posted every Tuesday, following the previous post from the previous week, and following a very limited set of guidelines (that each author has one week to write the next piece after the previous week’s installment goes up, that the installment should build from the previous section’s content and form, and that contributions should range between 8 and 24 lines or be a visual work).
Follow the entire epic poem here: Birdwolf.
The eleventh installment is presented this week by Christopher Higgs.
XI.
flashes of wolfbird gnawed in the overnight
nuzzle of my xenophobia and silence
because Agamben identifies the werewolf
as the liminal figure
neither human nor animal—both
& Heinrich uncovers the raven
as complex and sophisticated
but in my quadrant of LA
a bird means something
much different than a wolf
& the wolfbird or birdwolf
creeps snakes and lives
past the practices of science
yet
how am I supposed to create
birdwolf when my son who
stands two feet tall might
be required to raise his right
hand in allegiance to President
Trump nine months from now?
