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

Reaching the Opposite Side
Claudio Parentela & Thomas Osatchoff

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Reservation System

on the dark side of the rational module
removing truth’s protective layers once again
just getting situational awareness
no longer retrievable when not an intact cabinet
in the centrally structured        having been blown up first
like the official version but different. Airplane crash site but no plane.
All buried. Deep. And since we do it to ourselves, the hole closes itself up.
Regarding attempts to gaslight ix many acres of pulverized marble for purposes of control as if we live in a foundry
it’s not inconsequential that “no” means not and “know” is to understand
rivers of steel cooling new forms to go through again a grinder of sorts
for what is left of only small fragments reaching
the opposite side.
Nose behind the tail at the same moment in time.
If you want a chance, you’ll have to use the code.

Diamonds in Every Direction

Chain-link craft.
Fabric Ref. Code
111 Kay Rosen

queueup sorrows
trained I trained
in linguistics

from one fence
to get as many
aesthetics as we

please to present
our signature
extending chains

want difference
that makes
a difference

to identity worn
omnidirectional
in recurring use

Imaginary Friends

Someone who doesn’t exist
viewing our content.
Redid our walls
we didn’t clean up.

Collages: Claudio Parentelais.  Poetry: Thomas Osatchoff.

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Claudio Parentelais an illustrator, painter, photographer, mail artist, cartoonist, collagist, and freelance journalist. Active for many years in the international underground art scene, he has collaborated with many zines, magazines of contemporary art, and comics internationally. He lives in Catanzaro, Italy.
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Thomas Osatchoff, together with family, is building a self-sustaining home near a waterfall. Recent work has appeared in The Concrete Desert Review, Penumbra, ELJ Editions, and elsewhere.