Monologue in a Pinhole into an Asylum, and: (an interview session)

Monologue in a Pinhole into an Asylum, and: (an interview session) Saheed Sunday (bio) Monologue in a Pinhole into an Asylum It's June soon. & all a boy can hopeis to not get sucked into a pinholewhere the same questions are askedover & over again: who has seen thewind? here, we talk less about howa boy's words can erupt into moltenlava than how a boy's mouth becomesa string of optimized syntax & variable.say, i'm from a field of fractured windshooting into a ferrying of rosewaterlike an asteroid shooting through solidcrystals. listen. when i say, everythingwith a body flees, what i mean is deadpetals are surrounding a girl's lip & lo-sing it to gravity—like a scuttling sedanit's new year soon. and this future ismore of an empyrean, flames fillingmicroscopic spaces, than a rose, thana spectra flash of magnesian molecules.yesterday, i scooped my hand deepinto the belly of this soil my feet tendrils& an electric ray surged my fingers intoa disc of platinum to bond a connectionbetween them & god / or space. thishere is a hydraulic to convey my whiteblood cell fluids into submission. i end. End Page 196 (an interview session) the Son asks his Mother.Son: how do ants not mistaketheir mother's head for sugar?Mother: (frowns) you ask toomuch questions. (smiles) (umphs)let's say it this way, Ghazal.how do you not mistake yourfather's grave with the gardener's?Son: he's my father, Mom!Mother: yes, yes. he is. & howdo you not mistake God withpolychromatic evening primroses?Son: he's God, Mom! He's God!Mother: & how do you not mistakeyour breaths on a race to yourbreaths at rest? tell me, Ghazal.Son: (umphs) living and death?how does one mistake that?Mother: why, Ghazal? why?Son: why? every single thing youthrust at footprints a mark ofintimacy, seethed into my skin.Mother: and, that's your answer. End Page 197 Saheed Sunday saheed sunday, NGP V, is a Pushcart nominee, a Best of The Net nominee, a Star Prize Awardee and an Hcaf member. He has his works published in Lolwe, Strange Horizons, Trampset, The Deadlands and others. Copyright © 2024 University of North Dakota