Exergue XXIV by Daniel Y. Harris

Khôra’s femtocells are leptic at the ferrite core. She be sachem,

a darknet for anthroparions by Liber de Imaginibus. Hydraulic

episous and brisure frack the XKeyscore. Mass surveillance

            has its cocksling from PLECTERE. Jaws return 

their retromandibulars. Her sex is tabula AEILNORSTU. 

All enciphered messages have cubicles and rosa obscura 

heresies. L’usine de troc turns usé cri tonal into outils á soc. 

            Khôra has the casket: here, nude, art dares 

undecennary. A minor meeting, facile, delicate. Suck 

and carcerate. “Death by tissue rejection,” decrees King 

            DNAM. Next, gene protest in a chorus secundus.

What goblinry? Erase pain. Wood cubes swivel on wire 

axles. Huskerism requires symbiotes. Extreme gravity

for colonists in fishnet hose, or jugglery without regalia. 

            Imps shape their last gerechtigkeitsspirale. Line 436: 

printf(“[scanner] FD%d retrying with different auth combo!

\n”, conn->fd). Axed by his vocabularycleptic blade, Gregor 

            bloodies Khôra’s stub and Zero-G modifications. 

Her Jakob Böhme proxy defines mesostics as immobilized. 

She peeks at 124.5 petaFLOPS, a quintillion, 10¹⁸ floating 

point operations per second. Spiny insectoids squirt venom. 

Thinkpols cut WALL-E-like beings, or dry, sardonic Qs

from memristive circuits. Khôra names them Berzelius 

Windrips, her chief subordinates risen from their graves.

Pectin sets jam. Skin dip coats. Pit vipers hunt prey.  

 “Exergue XXIV” is from the manuscript, The Tryst of Thetica Zorg  

Bio

Daniel Y. Harris is the author of 11 collections of poetry and collaborative writing including The Rapture of Eddy Daemon (BlazeVOX, 2016), heshe egregore (with Irene Koronas, Éditions du Cygne, 2016), The Underworld of Lesser Degrees (NYQ Books, 2015), Esophagus Writ (with Rupert M. Loydell, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2014) and Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Červená Barva Press, 2013) Some of his poetry, experimental writing, art, and essays have been published in BlazeVOX, The Café Irreal, Denver Quarterly, E·ratio, European Judaism, Exquisite Corpse, Kerem, The New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, In Posse Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, Stride, Ygdrasil and Zeek. He is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of X-Peri, http://x-peri.blogspot.com/