s w i f t s  &  s l o w s: a quarterly of crisscrossings

Hologram  2018 – 19
Tommasina Bianca Squadrito & Jim Leftwich

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A stone or concrete edging to a street or path because some
predicates of modal readings are presences in far and near directions_ Many semi-visible things_ Knowledge_ Situation_ Physics just_

absemic
adsemic
antisemic
bisemic
desemic
dissemic
emsemic
ensemic
eusemic
exsemic
foresemic
imsemic
intersemic
insemic
irsemic
midsemic
missemic
nonsemic
oversemic
postsemic
presemic
prosemic
resemic
semisemic
subsemic
supersemic
transsemic
undersemic
unsemic
ursemic

An asemantic expression, a subsyllabic song, a glossolalia of a
language that I do not know yet and more extensive than what these syllables, letters, worded expressions can do_ Collected traits that
come from an interior or distant writing where approximations,
outcrops of indeterminate perceptions emerge_
Perhaps vagueness_

From asemic language to non-asemic language_
For an asemic sign from a non-asemic sign_
You asemic in me not asemic_
Asemic groups with non-asemic groups_
Between asemics and non-asemic issues_
Asemic points and non-asemic points_
In asemic neighborhoods and non-asemic neighborhoods_
With asemic hug and not asemic hugs_
For a non-asemic reading from an asemic reading_
In the midst of asemic cities with non-asemic municipalities_
Inside asemic and non-asemic parks_
Among asemic herbs and non-asemic looks_
Asemic hopes in non-asemic hopes_
Asemic metamorphoses or non-asemic metamomorphoses_
I walk in an asemic way beside you, not asemic_
In the asemic world, in the non-asemic world_
And to the non-asemic world, to the asemic world_
And this asemic grain with the non-asemic grain_
For asemic gestures in non-asemic ones_
Yes and no asemic with yes and no not asemic_
Or asemic writing or non-asemic writing_
From an asemic movement, from a non-asemic movement_
For an asemic reading from a non-asemic reading_
Asemic bands for non-asemic bands_
Asemic mode and non-asemic mode_
Asemic times in non-asemic times_
The asemic creation in non-asemic dignity_
I write in non-asemic letters for an asemic dream_
An asemic obsession in a non-asemic one_
With asemic signals for non-asemic signals_
An end asemic in a non-aseptic end_
From an asemic to a non-asemic one_
Asemic line, non-asemic line_
Asemic duties in non-asemic duties_
Sea asemic and sea non-asemic_
An asymmetric tangle and a non-asemic tangle_
The asemic plan of a non-asemic plane_
A non-asemic transparency towards an asemic transparency_
And vice versa_
You’re asemic when you look at me not asemic_
And I’m asemic when I look at you, not asemic_
Asemically and non-asemically_
Asemic movements between non-asemic movements_
We exchange asemic signs with non-asemic signs_
For asemic power to non-asemic power_
In asemic light, in non-asemic light_
Asemic paths from non-asemic paths_
For the asemic reversal in the non-asemic overthrow_
Asemic dignity in non-asemic creation_
So you give asemantically a non-asemantic prize_
Asemic accusations in non-asemic accusations_
Asemic fields in non-asemantic fields_
Black and white asemic in white and black non-asemic_
Asemical heartbeats and non-asemic heartbeats_
And all the asemic among the non-asemic ones_
And all non-asemic among the asemic ones _

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Tommasina Bianca Squadrito studied Sculpture at the Palermo Fine Art Academy and Philosophy at Florence’s University.  She configures her works as a Calligraphy without writing through movement, poetry, installations and performances that queries the environment and the people involved. Her work has been published also in The new post-literate, Asemic magazine 15, Utsanga, Gammm, White bridge, Slova issue 15, Zoomoozophone 8, Brave new word 13, Die Leere Mitte issue 3. officinapatosq.blogspot.com/

Jim Leftwich is a poet and essayist who lives in Roanoke, VA, USA. He is the author of Rascible & Kempt Vols. 1 – 3 (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016-2017) and I reMEmber petrOLeum  (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019)