1 Diagram & 3 Graphs

Joshua Ware

Aleatoric Graphical Analysis for Anthropology and Economics (A)

Aleatoric Graphical Analysis for Anthropology and Economics (B)

Aleatoric Graphical Analysis for Anthropology and Economics (C)

A Diagram in which to Misappropriate Ψάπφω

A: My heart tongues my eyes & the sounds of each pixel storing image after image in electrical state no longer represent the represented.

B: Some say the Muses nine but turn to 10 to multiplicity. Apple slumbers & simulacrum sing severed songs of Sappho on scale-free networks.

C: All mixed in ethereal packets switching between routers. This is how a mythology re-creates itself in an era of rusted metal.

D: In my madness/dead now a lingua franca for identity politics.

E: How the other takes the other to I to drink red wine & dance in a field of micro-processors, while constructing a micro-architecture that caches memories of a foam-born Cyprian goddess.

F: If the antiqued movements of electrons in a low-pressure space have no history like the waves and boats/ [and] laurel trees on a Mytilene coast,

G: or silver-clear shadows that cut into the moon & flood the earth with faces,

H: or bodies that float through heavy-metal centuries—an imperceptible connecting with themselves through eternity. A more fractured but true history.

Joshua Ware lives in Lincoln, NE where he teaches writing and is pursuing his PhD. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals, most recently Anti-, Bat City Review, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, Sleepingfish, Sonora Review, and Word For/Word. He is the co-author of the forthcoming chapbook I, NE: Iterations of the Junco (Small Fires Press, 2009).