An Excerpt From Andrew Brenza's Pod

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Physical form appears contiguous as discrete spontaneity. 

Cyclic reinsertion of modified cellular constructs. Corporeal generation within abstract womb. Pulses of recognition justify individuation procedures. Assignments targeted, synchronized for optimal endeavor. 

Resist temptations to impel boundary coordination.  Peripheral obscurity is a necessary proviso. Sentience neither begins nor ends but vaguely decries itself. 

Because darkness is aware of itself, I am aware of darkness. Here and there, we are to be aware of how meanings meet their own ends. 

A light forms, and darkness withdraws into itself. Like a wave receding, it exposes space in which body, that uneven fluid, arises, readying for return. A light forms, and darkness reseeds itself. It is like a fallow field at the back edge of winter ready to return. 

core of ouroboric reproduction, thread of caducean governance, packets of emotive transfer between coded probabilities, mechanical, material, divine divisiveness.

The matter of fixed attention coagulates mitotically into each succeeding generation. The substance of trained regard guarantees continuity of all prior propagations. The movement of time, whether forward or backward, remains immaterial.

Light is a bubble in darkness, a slice of bread I gift to you, my hand brushing against yours. Light is an orb in lightless space, ready to collapse, the floor vague at its edges. Light is a rubber band stretched to its breaking point. 

Affection is a material facet of sentience; forgiveness, a quantum aspect of mass. Hence, compounds resonate with alterations in tenor. Hence, valences of fear and bliss. 

SYNOPSIS: Over a period of several months in the winter of 2022, a nameless entity, via manipulations of entangled particles across time (or pods, as the entity referred to them) transmitted an expressive model for the development of an eternally sustainable utopian consciousness into the plastic architecture of the author's dreams. This book is the visual-textual record of those transmissions.

Andrew Brenza is an American experimental writer and librarian. He is the author of numerous collections of visual poetry includingCompass (RedFoxPress) andSmear(BlazeVOX Books). He is also the founder of Sigilist Press, a micropress devoted to the publication of visual poetry. In addition topod,his other experimental speculative novel,WRYTHM, combining prose narrative, visual poetry and free verse, was also released by Montag Press.

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