swifts  &  s l o w s · a quarterly of crisscrossings

silence squeezes itself
James Mesiti

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xix.

penance for
putting together
clavicle echo
after echo by
echo
penance for
transgressing
light to
erasure,
founding to
signifies

good luck.

fifth floor, 5:27pm, thursday

xii.

the sky
is making a correction again. knowing where to spread
after shadow flickers – composite, shivered as the
only way the verb to partner finds a space that cannot

time to go.

12:53am, west philadelphia

rubric

where few options. the shallows restart. silence squeezes itself from
eyelash. where unable to story anymore or its accuracy. i wonder.

word count:

light: 12
bone(s): 8
obsess: 1

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You can read more of James Mesiti’s poetry in
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James Mesiti is a poet and PhD student at The University of Pennsylvania where his research focuses on transatlantic poetry and its links to other art forms. In October 2021 he published his first poetry book titled Algo de nadie (Something of No one) with Valparaiso Ediciones. He currently resides in Philadelphia.