Dispatches from the Metasemic Hyperreal: New Work by EgiDia Elle (Italy), Miekal And (USA), Mike Miskowski (USA), Kristen Szumyn (Australia)

 

"Mirage from the past" by EgiDia Elle (Turin, Italy) 

(August 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist)

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From PANSEMIC TEXTSTORM (with translation) by Miekal And 

(Wisconsin, USA) (July 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet)

Square 1

Violet storms wail electric dirge across fields
Shattered echoes drift beneath silent moon’s gaze
Fractured hearts pulse incandescent through ashen air
Ghost-winds murmur lost lullabies on the wind
Time’s shards float down ruins of ancient spires
Night’s ember-rain kindles whispers of tomorrow
Dawn carves its cry across a weary sky

Square 2

Deep oceans tremble under impossible ice
Salt-veins shiver where no sunlight ever falls
Submerged runes uncoil in drowned cathedral halls
Currents carry songs of drowned constellations
Coral-veils sway to a phantom’s lullaby
Breathless pearls drift toward the crushing dark
Pressure blooms crystal roses in the deep

Square 3

Scarlet rivers flow backward through ragged bones
Blood-tide blossoms in the marrow of time
Veins of flame map a geography of grief
Heart-cinders flicker on the brink of void
Each pulse erupts with the roar of stars
Ash and ember intertwine in silent dance
All endings blossom into new beginnings

Square 4

Wind-carved mountains hum with ancient memory
Stone-voices echo in the hollow of days
Broken peaks cradle vaults of buried stars
Sun-dust settles on the crest of legends
Roots of granite twist toward hidden worth
Sky-fissures bleed light into timeless dark
Pilgrims of dust kneel before stone-gods

Square 5

Neon flowers bloom on metal-waste horizons
Circuit-vines pulse with the hum of ghosts
Synthetic petals slow-dance in acid rain
Iron-breezes carry the scent of ozone
Rust-spores drift among electric gardens
Digital moths flicker in the cobalt night
Memory-seeds sprout in coded cathedrals

Square 6

Clock-ciphers spin within the mind’s deep vault
Ticking shadows stretch across thought’s expanse
Pendulums chant in the language of hours
Seconds fracture into galaxies of cost
Silent gears grind out stories of regret
Time-ghosts wander halls of vanished chance
Tomorrow stands at the threshold of now

Square 7

Ember-wings glimmer atop collapsed spires
Phoenix-ashes drift through the ashen air
Renewal’s heartbeat stirs beneath cold dust
Flame-seeds sleep in the cavern of stone
Hope’s spark waits in the hollow of night
Dawn’s breath coaxes new life from ruin
Every death carries the seed of dawn

Square 8

Celestial gardens bloom on cratered plains
Starlight-dew drips from the bones of comets
Moon-vines curl around forgotten temples
Meteor-petals scatter over endless night
Galactic winds hum hymns of creation
Universe-roots delve through the womb of dark
Life awakens in the hush between stars

- Miekal And (July 2025)

From PANSEMIC TEXTSTORM by Miekal And (Wisconsin, USA )

(July 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet)

"Disguised agenda" by Mike Miskowski (Arizona, USA )

(July 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet)

"Notation - databending" by Kristen Szumyn (Australia)

(July 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet)