from Portraits of the Artists as Their Own Subjects

The screen lit up            it was old

she took to foam       the stitching / cloth        and it was without form

patches              clay              Ground Theme Koji Kondo, 1982 / PVC green paint and astroturf

                                  and darkness on the face

of the Kingdom

and her hand over the cellophane water         her hand over the plush fungi and her hand over the void         over the Pakkun flower with piranha teeth bared

                    and behold,

Mike Lala has published two chapbooks: Under the Westward Night (Knickerbocker Circus, 2010) and [fire!] ([sic] Press, 2011). His work is forthcoming/in Fence; The Brooklyn Rail; Diagram; Rhino; La Petite [...]