Mg Roberts
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Site
small layers
perpetuate based on branch,
surface, fall
a compass will
always point to angles of
force and direction
plates of skin
to petal this moment
where residuals of house
gradually form historic
create suture marks left of like cracked tendon
real-time of fossils,
sand, turn preserved remains
weight skins of page
scale bearing artificial situations of
hows
to dislodge index con(ver)gent
sentences gesture
historical fossil
house geography
undergo
syntactic structures
slip under, fall over
alphabet
subduction
magnified by degrees of silence
where
so
little actually fits together
Somesite
Don’t count your jaspers before they hatch
avoid being scattered by constellation
the sky is the sky is the sky the sky is the
sky is the sky the sky is the sky is the sky a map
the sky is the sky is the sky is the sky the
sky is the sky is the sky the sky is the sky
the sky the sky is the sky is the sky is the is
sky the sky is the sky is the sky the sky is
the sky is the sky the sky is the sky is the rusting each part of the day
passing vowels
each word blowing back,
a sequence of bent points
everything is made of
accidents
speech
a violet shape
obliged to carry burnt directions
One branch scrapes against another then another and another until there are no more trees
a magnification
of allowance
needing to underline,
track prepositions
as a means to emplace
trust for connection
house branch as
respect to compass until
No one believes in trees or the stars
accidents contract over
barren landscape eye-fall end up everywhere
One nothing scrapes against nothing then nothing and nothing until there is nothing
a set of materials that
shifts, parrots stone
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Mg Roberts is currently co-editing the anthology Responses, New Writing, Flesh with Bhanu Kapil and Ronaldo V. Wilson on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color to be published by Nightboat Books. She is the author of not so, sea (Durga Press) and her second collection Anemal Uter Meck was published by Black Radish Books in February 2017. Her poems and visual art appear in Smarginature, Web Conjunctions, Art Practical, Dusie’s Asian Anglophone Edition, and elsewhere. She’s a Kelsey Street Press member, the Northern California Kundiman co-chair, and sits on the board of Small Press Traffic, a San Francisco non-profit providing a local and national platform for underserved writers. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters, two hens, Goldendoodle, and geologist husband.