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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1180



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Eric Dolphy

Fred Moten


the ironworks on alameda. thala me
diron iron urn broke down. ironman
burned the factory, alamede brurned
like powder, like brush, what chord?
brokedown dalamede aburned hard
chunks of iron ash for pavement. alama
dea twirl cold down to la steel.
two screams announced the fire on the other
side of downtown. this is a long-ass road.
one time I made a dancer's hand fly off. foundry
like powder. alamaquilladora orange
oran nogales. alamedea breakdown
is a fable, hard transfer, aleave in
nether, hard angle, low land, again,
said booker little, what corridor?



Fred Moten teaches in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has published several essays on black music, literature, and politics, and a chapbook of poems called Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000).

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