by Chloe Elliott | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
You Eat a Moon as a Metaphor for Pain Here’s what’s going to happen: the moon is going to fall out of the sky and land in the basketball court in front of the apartment where your dad died. You are going to swallow it. Here’s what you are going to do: be buried under...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
to a chandelier Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten. Goethe fire-drunk, you dangle like a bad metaphor: a too-ripe melon, tugging umbilical at the ceiling. your shape: just right: the élan of a soap bubble your flux: too bright: ...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Founding these boys have iron bones forged in foundries tongues like metal latches hinged at the shoulders names clattering clasps on stone their forefathers knew soot as dawn light the trudge & lift of it worn in their palm lines bit lips tasting of...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 22, 2023 | Featured, Prose
How to Make Tako Nigiri Cooked sushi rice Sashimi-grade octopus Wasabi Nori A feeling of closeness A sharp knife First, you will need to cook sushi rice. On your dad’s chair he balances a donabe rice cooker. He crouches over the bag of rice on the...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 12, 2023 | Video
The Two Unseens The Two Unseens is a short experimental archival poetry film utilising footage of the first ever film recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. The original poem itself is an existential...
