s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Verb
Yuko Otomo & Steve Dalachinsky

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TO SLEEP

among
the buzzing silence
of
eternity
is
an action of sincerity
in
its utmost ambiguity

TO STAND

naked
in the midst
of
the clicking passage
of
a vast untold story
is
a full time job
for
the gate keeper
of
secrets

TO TURN

around
to look for something
you’ve just lost
requires
the strength
to taste
non-descriptive dreams

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Text by Yuko Otomo. Collages by Steve Dalachinsky.

Yuko Otomo is a visual artist & a bilingual poet/writer of Japanese origin. Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), STUDY & Other Poems on Art (UDP), Elements (Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press) & FROZEN HEATWAVE: a poetry collaboration project with Steve Dalachinksy (Luna Bison Prods).

Poet/collagist Steve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His publications include: The Final Nite (PEN Oakland National Book Award, Ugly Duckling Presse), Reaching Into The Unknown, with a French photographer Jacques Biseglia (RogueArt), Fool’s Gold (Feral Press), a superintendent’s eyes (Unbearable/Autonomedia), flying home, with a German visual artist Sig Bang Schcmidt, (Paris Lit Up Press), as collage (Otholiths), Black Magic (New Feral Press) & where night and day become one (Great Weather for Media). He is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres.