I want to do what you want to do
I straight-up treasure this "circumstantial" collaboration I did with the writer & MDiv. Caroline Devane, a friend who defines the term. Through some synchronicity,
I fell into talking with Kristin Prevallet, ed of DB's TrancePoetics folio around the time that Caroline and I were both leaving indeterminate poetry messages on each other's voice-mails and I had developed a strange and sometimes resurfacing habit/pathology of drawing and writing in my sleep. With Kristin's encouragement, we made this poem. And the recording, below...
...which I was lucky enough to discover on an external hard drive, as the version coded into the long-running journal has fallen into some bottomless pit of HTML, an anxiety I think about whenever publishing to the web which, say what you will, needs less tenders than sometimes do print artifacts.
Poetry as an Ethics of Friendship