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 Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards 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.