A Seam of Electricity by Ian U Lockaby
Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest. Edition of 100. Printed + assembled in Northampton, MA.
“The matter of electricity is unverifiable in this house. Next door you might find another way in. One takes tweezers to the outlets and tries to pluck it out. One wraps it around a stick like a caduceus and the long snake of modernity. This health. This electricity, this health.
How often we are healed with electricity. How often we are damaged with it.”
Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the online journal mercury firs. In addition to A Seam of Electricity, he's the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (out now from Omnidawn) and the translator of two chapbooks by poets from Chile and Mexico. He lives in New Orleans.