Eater, of mouths

Author: Matthew Johnstone Publisher: Vegetarian Alcoholic Press (2017) Matthew Johnstone strips language to the root of interaction, teasing the reader into slowing down and then wondering if haste was intended.  Each word is carefully placed to portray the actuality of experience in snippets of stories and carvings of images.   Our place orbits itself / it packs the continent / & we feral in.                   Citizens of that rust / deaf, repeating out / to kept glares / is it loose / suns tilt buildings to caves / or widen / throats watching maul.   –from "Alligators"