Planets of Foreign Words

Betsy Lohrer Hall

Eric Ingram

Sunset dawn
, …–
today is deferent
worldless genuflection, presented to
the flora of planets of foreign words

with the feeling of discovering a having been waiting for something unknown, which in its
unfolding feels as if known before, as the feeling of never having known is forgotten

Flora and fawning,endless obeisance, endless waxing
strings, burning in want of all but
the quiet fealty of patient to psychiatrist

          an example,

Mine: Dr. Haddad–
the sound itself a twist on the name of an ancient god aka Hadad the storm god
of Akkad, whose future names include Ba’al, and Amun, and Jupiter, the Roman, the nth planet

Dr. Haddad, she wore this morning a
black blouse matching black hair, she called
in the script (Hadad wore bull-horned headdresses
in eras abstractless, in the Levant, modern-day Iraq)–

I ready myself in the mirror for the drive from home
to CVS and back

 

 

A scream, glass, not
–an insect on the wall’s inseam

coming rain crawls upwards
it’s letters from a book in the rain

oranges pulping into words
which are paintings who
eat purple circles
let us compliment the orange for opening
disrobing, the peel, used even, as garnish
definition– seize, to settle a debt

b          o          o          k

upon the lips of a glass woman, drunk with old-fashioned frozen water
raising to standard atmospheric pressure
She, praising her own balance and
the gymnastics of bank accounts

r           a           i           n

the man who has paid for his drink trips on his own laces
splashing the cocktail onto the jacket of his friend
the ice, exposed to room temperature, sings its
way into another state of matter1

l           e           t           t           e           r

bibliography

  1. wikipedia

works cited

  1. planets and people

paintings

 

 


1  “in the Solar System, ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far away as the Oort cloud objects. Beyond the Solar System, it occurs as interstellar ice. It is abundant on Earth’s surface – particularly in the polar regions and above the snow line[5] – and, as a common form of precipitation and deposition, plays a key role in Earth’s water cycle and climate. It falls as snowflakes and hail or occurs as frost, icicles or ice spikes.”

 

 

To the invader I will say I have been humbled by the dog I see in every neighborhood, driving south on avenues among cars of different continents – how silly, that car is in Europe; that car is in Africa; that’s so far away! – I turn left, Sunset – the sunset which draws so many of us home, the wormhole at the golden hour of day, at the 5pm of a life, I left home and found harmony, I meticulously counted and counted, I returned to find my key signature, to my home, a future California–– Ocaso

She talks to the sudden invader like he’s a harmed friend, plays video games while stroking his scars, together they kill bad guys, together they speak language, the world, a face, listening to true crime on the commute from home to the world… (I’ve been in contact with another world–

(the interior of this room isn’t what I thought it was going to be)

I’m not the only one who can go
there, but not too many other
people can (I don’t think any
one I know can) I know when I
see the mirror that
it’s there, the world) and
as for inner necessity, be careful.. human souls…

 

 

Kinema
moving
equat

formulas

image
Center

 

lines aren’t really ever paralel
lines really                  parallell

very fun

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/health/microbiome-brain-behavior-dementia.html

B-
You can read the arithmetic operators as follows:

   

+ たす    (足す)

 

 - ひく    (引く)

 

× かける   (掛ける)

   ÷ わる    (割る)

   


tic
tic        
tic tic
tic

DELTAdx = (vx)t
DELTAdy = (v1y)t – ½gt2

ionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionionion

A+
paralel

parralel
parallel
paralell
parrallel
parrallell
parallell

運動方程式

 

 

 

in 3rd grade I fought with my hot teacher about math (I was right) and when she sent me to the office I cried and the next day placed a tack on her chair when she wasn’t looking. I felt bad so I removed it and so I remember it

your hairy licking lips kiss the dent in my forehead
the tracks of my skull railroads like a dream like an animated movie
dreams and movies are lies
HA
Nothing isn’t lies, so what does that make dreams
So many hairs transform the nouns of skin and face and verbs of flake and sag and stretch
the words and the skin
the word physiology may not answer its own question
let’s agree at least that it’s not easy to spell

X cn
pencil taps
puncture
wounds
stepping on tacks

verb: pencil; 3rd person present: pencils; past tense: pencilled; past participle: pencilled; gerund or present participle: pencilling; past tense: penciled; past participle: penciled; gerund or present participle: penciling

verb: pencil; 3rd person present: pencils; past tense: pencilled; past participle: pencilled; gerund or present participle: pencilling; past tense: penciled; past participle: penciled; gerund or present participle: penciling

an instrument for writing or drawing, consisting of a thin stick of graphite or a similar substance enclosed in a long thin piece of wood or fixed in a metal or plastic case.

 

 

|
You may be inclined to see it as harm
you may see a representation of triangles
you may study pyramids
for yourself
for a test
for a artwork
childhood, childhood, adulthood, adulthood
Fm
Db
C
Am
e
b

            2
2     4     5                   5       4      5      4      4
                                      3
0

And surprisingly, while high, there can be a face with no pupils
a torso, unnecked, no arms but in amoeba, shades of tone, skin in saturation in unsaturation

as text, which is image, and image, which is also image, conglomerate, all of the faces come out,
if you are inclined to self harm–

& find the faces
& frank,
it will take lengths and measurements
it will take
          pyra m ids
          pyr ami ds
          py ramid s
          tr iangle s
          py ramid s

if you are inclined, wait, there’s another week, no there’s not,

Ab
Ab/G
F
Ab

 

 

                                          //

Queen Calafia,
you know
your angles

Mexican beer
mortician

corner
WardeII
                                       lIckIng!
rats                  Holes                  hair                math               class                algebra               II               texting

California

 

I would like to kiss the Queen of the Island of Calafia, which is to say perhaps I am Californian and want to kiss myself, love myself

mortician

 

It could be so sinple

hWat hAppened hWo dId We gETHERe???

hWat hAppened hWo dId We gETHERe???

It could be so sinple

I would like to be the Queen of the Island of Calafia, which is to say perhaps I wish to become Californian and want to kiss her, love her

corners

 

LickIng!!

   

Mexican beer

Know your angles

I would like to kill the Queen of the Island of Calafia, which is to say perhaps I am Californian and want to miss myself, above myself

     

fin

lickIng!!
the King
of Calafia,

know your angels

fin

 

 

Betsy Lohrer Hall

Betsy Lohrer Hall is a visual artist from Long Beach, California. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the U.S., Thailand and Taiwan. She earned her MFA at California State University, Fullerton, and has served as curator for Here and Now, 2016, the PUMP 2017 multi-sensory art festival, and soundpedro 2019. As founder and director of flux art space, she encourages creative experimentation and community engagement. Find her on Instagram @betsy_lohrer_hall and @fluxartspace.

Eric Ingram

Eric Ingram is an artist from San Diego, soon to be pursuing a master’s degree in education at UC Berkeley. His work has been published in Magma, Fields Magazine, and Soap Ear, among others. You can find him on twitter, instagram, and bandcamp.