ISSUE 11: DISABILITY JUSTICE
KAY ULANDAY BARRETT
ELIOT CARDINAUX
RAPHAEL RAE
KAMILA RINA
MIRIAM SAPERSTEIN
LUCAS SIMONE
M.K. THEKKUMKATTIL
HELEN ZHONG
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Absent of Genus
A compersion of blue flowers
titled All of Us or Discipline
of the Disabled. Unsayable
tumult in the speaking of
names. The unexplained
course this music takes through
The Valley of Uncharted Waters.
That the Flooded Plateau aspires
to reach at its diurnal apex.
What grows there, no one
can see, like city rains. Awaited
lovers separate into number
Surfaces grow old
at The Gate of Registry.
Eliot Cardinaux is a mad queer poet, pianist, composer, and translator working at the edges of the lyric and improvised music. The author of On the Long Blue Night (Dos Madres, 2023), and the trio of Quiet Labor, Toy Elegy, and This Music From Another Room (Bodily Press, 2024), Cardinaux has also produced over a dozen albums of original music, including, most recently, Imminence (self-released, 2024), with percussionist Gary Fieldman. His poems and/or translations have appeared in Jacket2, The Arts Fuse, Meridian, Bennington Review, California Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Spoon River Poetry Review. He is the founding editor of The Bodily Press.