ryan hooper
Thalamus
After Lorine Niedecker
ossicles rattle
drum’s wet chamber
philtrum clasps
its minor cup of nil
glabella smooth
lunula
rises
recedes
sclera bleaching
its own
eclipse
everyplace
the
vomer parts air
into two
sorrows
cold
finds the orbit
first
Ryan Hooper is a Cornwall-based writer, artist and sound maker whose mixed media work explores the intersections of memory and landscape.