poem
Volume 31, Number 2

He Developed an Export Plan for Industry

I am a tree next to the Ogden River.
I use the term to denote a subtitle in
one direction, a demographic. Runes

on the head & ruins of rooms around.
The interaction becomes attractive, an
exponent of exponential knowledge.

This also leads to a rethinking of justice
& ethics, ideas developed through

Derrida's reading of "Operation Back-
fire," the name given by the FBI to that
ten-year-long investigation of Karl Marx.

Subsequent histories of the period have
emphasized the outside-in-ness of it
all, but otherwise have come up empty.


—Mark Young