Partially Scripted Nuclear Script

As for scorching nuclear script 
as for psychological pallor 
this is brinkmanship 
this is kindled ruin 
as mythological pathogen 
as for illuminated cinder 
there persists audacious centipede 
as for molecules in motion 
script remains 
exploded & reconfigured as curious mirage 
being molecules as plague 
as stark but ferocious cinder 
as embellished  dragons static 
that broker their own state 
not solely as wonder 
or vice versa as intrinsic cognition 
yet a secretive maze transpires 
not as harried cornucopia as spell 
but conjuring sensation as palpable force 
sans bifurcation as transactional priority but power that wafts as greenish motif that wafts as compelled saffron 
being greenish desert by impalpable confusion 
not power misnamed by prone or eruptive tourniquet 
or pointless eagle's by scattered mirage as sequestered speech by palindromic anaemia 
being fallen branches by spells 
but divination by root 
by shifting ozonal mesmeric 
alive not as gargantuan annealment 
or plagiarized phantom 
but absolute inferiority that rises above its realm by gesture 


Will Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The latter is central to Alexander’s expanding inner range, which has allowed him access to levels of mind beyond the three-dimensional as boundary. He thereby explores the full dimensionality of each word. For him, each word has access to not only the median level of three-dimensional experience, but also partakes of experience on both the supra and subconscious planes. His praxis of language is not unlike the Mayan numerical world, where each letter of the alphabet spontaneously engages in non-limit. Thus, all fields of experience are open for exploration: art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, and poetics. Alexander’s books include Asia and HaitiThe Sri Lankan LoxodromeCompression and PuritySunrise In ArmageddonDiary As SinInside the Earthquake PalaceTowards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents. He was a 2022 Pulitzer Finalist for his poetry book Refractive Africa (New Directions, 2021). He lives in The City of Angels.