the bridge is singular it asserts its beauty as verisimilitude of form its presence is a provocation a displacement of the natural strung like a witness over incremental depths the tenants of this occupation suppose the iron ordinance of stasis a beauty that refuses to be held entirely bridging precipice to precipice a band of light over that which lies beneath (first | second)
The Science Creative Quarterly
By Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall was a forgettable student at the University of Saskatchewan. He is now readying himself for a PhD on Jeremy Prynne and the ‘Cambridge School of Contemporary Poetics’. His poetry and prose commonly appear in North American journals and most recently has been featured in: Forget Magazine, ditch, Jones Av, Fieldstone Review, and forthcoming from Misunderstandings Magazine. His first chapbook Brutal Tender Human Animal is available from Trainwreck Press.
FROM THE COLLECTION NO IRON RING (SECOND)
notions of hydrography piers from the channel the object imbued with conditional phrases contextual meaning a hydrostatic balance if you will, are, of, but not consumed by the Kitsap peninsula 5979 feet minus 40 reciprocal inductions during the rise and fall of several feet in 4-5 seconds a balletic guise 47˚16’00” N coordinates once negating the placement of this perfect mechanism over a narrow but deep pathology (first)
FROM THE COLLECTION NO IRON RING (FIRST)
This poem (and two others to be published in the coming days) are part of a growing sequence that is titled “No Iron Ring” and is making an analogous object out of the construction, edifice and ultimate destruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The ring functions as a symbol of engineering pride, fellowship and a constant reminder of the implications that engineers must encase human concerns into each of their designs. “No Iron Ring” is indicative of the author’s failure as an engineer, and henceforth my move into literature as a field of study. This poem along with others consists…