Poetry — August 17, 2015 10:10 — 1 Comment

Google Autocomplete Poem – Nate Brantingham

This is the type of poem you look at happening for a moment and then immediately situate yourself so you can see the whole thing transpire. The questions asked here are the ones we ask ourselves - questions about appearance, God, family. The piece plays with doubt, but the sort of doubt that arrises within an accusatory society living and breathing all around. How do we fit in? And does poetry have any place left? Nate Brantingham turns the simple and common, here, into beautiful art that lasts in our minds, transforming these moments of doubt into moments of community.

Bio:

Nate Brantingham is a performance poet, numbers slinger (data analyst), and writer. He has competed in numerous poetry slams and is currently shopping around an urban fantasy novel. This poem's list of questions was compiled with help from artist and dancer Mackenzie Fagras who often performs this poem live as a duet with Nate.

One Comment

  1. Tina says:

    I love this so much! Simple, lovely, thought provoking…thank you.

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What am I?

Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies

Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;

Scientists can't find me.

Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—

Remind me:

The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…

Tick, Tock: Divine me.

-- Richard Kenney