Andrew Zawacki

WAVEFRONT CODING

What’s lacking are metrics for parsing the terms: dataveillance and the jealous ghost, a low-interest loan, a heat signature, effluents of petrochemical waste. How would I know. As far as my myopic eyes can see: a middle landscape, in the middle distance, in the middle of my life.

UNUNCANNY

The sun shimmies out of its slipcase, a collage of altostratus detritus, shrapnel detaching from trees in a rush of crushed color. Illusion of a backlit milieu, where they roll no sidewalks up. Shift-command-Q: I turn my watch the wrong way round, to make the familiar familiar again.

SONIC FIBER-OPTIC

Crepuscular garden in stereo: cicadas jamming my left ear, traffic spamming the right. At full capacity, turning patients away. What of those shapes in the foreground, lacing the soundscape to violence at last, its scaleless calculus. Can you transit inside a frequency. What does it say.

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Andrew Zawacki is the author of six poetry books, most recently Unsun : f/11 (Coach House, 2019) and These Late Eclipses, due in spring 2025 from Verge Books. He is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of Georgia and a current fellow in the Long-Term Photography program at the Penumbra Foundation.