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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Christien Gholson Christien Gholson is currently one of the artists-in-residence at The Wormfarm Institute (a non-profit organic farm that seeks to bring culture back into agriculture) in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. His book of linked prose-poems, On the Side of the Crow, published by Hanging Loose Press, was nominated by Coldfront Magazine for best first book in 2006. A chapbook, The Sixth Sense, was recently published in The Modest Proposal Chapbook series of Lilliput Review. He attended both Naropa University and University of California at Davis. He was one of the leaders of the effort to unionize Borders Books & Music in the mid-nineties, editing the national bookseller union organizing magazine 8-Ball. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Corridors From "Labyrinth: Days of the Dead" Christien Gholson

It moves around here at night, a thief over dry leaves in dream. Los Alamos, Sandia, Kirtland, White Sands. Through the bathroom vent, a sucking wind, cluck of an old woman, fingers boiled phosphor-blue. Beneath her nails, a shock of black in the blood. Daedalus: Copernicus: Convoluted folds of the brain, a map through: The solution moves away, gets close: Galileo. Newton. Fascinating hole that creates itself: Crush and release: Einstein: Suture of Time, Space: Oppen- heimer, Teller, Szilard: Inertial confinement fusion: Rune of angular momentum: A new world safe: Nonlinear Tantra Equation: Symmetry, symmetry: To reveal the secret at the heart by making it. Path of Logos. Path of Logos. Follow the thread. The razor wire fence walks through the night. Mountains watch us through every window. A hum behind the wall. No source. How it continues with or without you.

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