How sweet to stroll through the Garden of Gestures at sunrisein Humanity Memorial Park. As you enterthe Alley of Shrugging Shoulders lined on leftand right by videos of headless torsosmiming “unsolvable problem, what can one do?”the sun will bathe your face in radiant light. Pause at the rolling Meadows of Futilitywhere a scatter of scarecrows […]
Author: Philip Fried
Philip Fried has published eight books of poetry, including Squaring the Circle (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2017), Interrogating Water (Salmon, 2014), and the forthcoming Among the Gliesians (Salmon, 2020). Carol Rumens recently selected his poem “Yoga for Leaders and Others” for her anthology Smart Devices: 52 poems from The Guardian ‘Poem of the Week’, due out from Carcanet in November.
Singularities in Everyday Life
In boyhood’s galactic epoch, outer spacebegan at my feet, and singularitieswere a frequent phenomenon. They freckledthe TV screen as pixels, gobbling attentionmost when they clustered to form personalitieslike Pinky Lee, Lucy, and Buffalo Bob,leaving as residue on the event horizonour couch-bound bodies. Also, the speckled bluelinoleum on my bedroom floor, a flattenedinfinity, was riddled with […]