Three Pieces

by nat raum

Note: This work is best viewed on a widescreen device.

dairy aisle in blue

After “Droning Texan refrigerators” recorded by Conor Walke and hosted by Cities and Memory

the drone hums in sapphire &

i reach
tentative fingers
towards
milk cartons
wrapped
in frigid air & i

push a cart through
azure aisles & fill it
with chilly essentials

until
teeming
with the
material

alternate anticapitalist universe in which my lover and i move to tierra del fuego

After “Woodpeckers in Tierra del Fuego” recorded by Mark Wilden and hosted by Cities and Memory

my love loves the south

through my hair & like
of mediterranean sea
like a woodpecker
a tree with but its

standing but i don’t

atlantic
like i love
his hands
i dream
respose &
desiccates
beak &
i don’t care
where we’re
want to stand
alone
anymore

deciduous song

After “Reaction to Photograph No 40” recorded by Lee Clift and hosted by Cities and Memory

forest pulses through screen door &
sends cicadas wailing skyward & thwacks
the funky drum for each distant beat
of thunder & settles

into a humming

nat raum (b. 1996) is a disabled artist, writer, and genderless disaster based on occupied Piscataway land in Baltimore, MD. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press, as well as the author of you stupid slut, the abyss is staring back, random access memory, and several chapbooks. Find them online: natraum.com/links.