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Speculative Friction by Claire Bateman “Unearthing the Sky” It was filthy, of course, with red clay streaks and embedded loam, as well as boulder-scored, chipped, and even fractured in places— a great big glorious suffering thing further damaged by the very means of its rescue, the violence of pulleys and clamps. Areas dredged from underwater [...]

Speculative Friction by Claire Bateman “A Pocket Introduction to Our Universe” What does our universe most like to do? To contort without any warning into nothing but corners, an awkward though not unbeautiful configuration. Of what elements is our universe composed? The first is distance, of which there are innumerable varieties, such as the chromatic [...]

Speculative Friction by Claire Bateman Another Poem On Blue Can I help it that I keep writing the same poem over & over again? No more than I can help being reborn into this world a million times every instant, a luxury so prolonged & painful that I’m unable to adequately prepare for it before, [...]