Butoh       


heelscrew

drifthead

heartdim

bone circle voice, bone circle vision, swallow down the spine

fingerbough

hipblade

collarpoint

joints spun with nerves

spillroot

splitseam

openend

ark of ribbing sewn shadow width, ellipse the night sails by

gravitylit

scourbreathe

exchord

the name for the word untangled blank

 
 

Gabriel Furshong writes from Missoula, Montana, where he works for the Montana Wilderness Association. His prose has been published in High Country News, In These Times, Earth Island Journal, Montana Quarterly, and Hawai’i Pacific Review, among other publications. His poetry has appeared in the Cossack Review, CutBank, IthacaLit, Apeiron Review, and other journals. His poem “Reburial” was included in the anthology “I Go To The Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights,” published by Lost Horse Press. New poems are forthcoming in Ekphrasis and 2 Bridges Review.