NOAH ROSS
hum/a tempest
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hum wouldn't you wouldn't you wouldn't you hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum h
hum whisper it whisper it whisper it hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum
hum wanted to wanted to wanted to hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum hum
[clink] I'm [clink] ready for [clink]
[clink]
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waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
ooooooooooooooooooooeeehh
hhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeEHeeeOOHHHh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSHHHHH
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mmmMMMMmmm hohohaha
hahahehehehehAH
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raven's feather a
feathered hen drop
on you both a wind
a wind [pinched as
thick as honey]
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all cyclops toads beetles
bats all the subjects [ / ]
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the red plague for learning
me your LANGUAGE [ / ]
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*safety in harbor I have left asleep
*is there more time
*say what
*say what shall I do
*say what
*say what shall I do
*say make thyself like a
nymph of the sea make
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fie fie fo fathom fie fie father
make nothing of his eyes rich &
strange sea nymphs only ring is
now [DING] [dong] [/ow]
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the naked boi wanders in from the blu
foggéd by the fire lay his bttm on the bndl
of ropes cross [x]s cross [oop]s
in the mesh is bound thread of fibers let hm [lay spine as spirit /]
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Noah Ross is an East Bay bookseller, the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2019) and Active Reception (forthcoming from Nightboat Books, 2021), and edits baest: a journal of queer forms & affects.