Table of Contents
Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She's Living in a Simulation 1
I.
Poet Wrestling with Her Empire of Dirt 7
Poet Wrestling with the Brxght Brxght Xyxs 11
All Palaces Are Temporary Palaces 13
Poet Wrestling with Every Night She'd Crucify Herself 14
Poet Wrestling with an Ode to Her Brother 15
Poet Wrestling with Happy Little Clouds 20
Poet Wrestling with the Day the Sun Stood Still in Cold November Rain 23
All That Is and Is Not Nuclear Is Our Family 25
The Songs We Know Not to Talk Over 27
Poet Wrestling in the Land of a Thousand Dances 29
II.
If This Is the Age We End Discovery 35
Poet Wrestling with Rick and Morty but Mostly Rick 37
Poet Wrestling with Her Own Aloneness in Its Time of Need {She's Going the Distance} 40
Poet Wrestling with Bunnicula in the Challenger Deep 44
Poet Wrestling from Zero to the Power of 46
III.
Poet Wrestling with the Possibility She's Living in a Simulation {inside a Simulation} 51
Poet Wrestling with Derelict Spacecraft 54
{All I Wanted Was Everything} 57
{To Zero, with Strange Love} 59
Poet Wrestling with Graviton as {{:: Gravitron ::}} 62
Poet Wrestling with Neutrinos She {Allegedly} Cannot Feel 64
Efes Wrestling with the Poet Who Won't Look Away 69
Poet Wrestling with the Poetics of Unsolvable Physics 70
{POST}:: LUDE
Poet Wrestling with Reverse {Re-verse} String Theory 77
Acknowledgments & Notes 97
