1 poem
by Dana Venerable
Dana Venerable (she, her, hers) is a writer, educator, co-editor of P-QUEUE journal, and a SUNY-UB English PhD candidate living between Buffalo, NY and the Jersey Shore. Her research addresses methods of the archive through compositions and intersections of Black performance, dance, notation, social choreography, and sound. Dana has performed within artist collectives at UB Arts Collaboratory, PLAY/GROUND and UB’s MFA Dance Concert, and is a teaching artist and volunteer at Just Buffalo Literary Center. She recently won the 2021 Academy of American Poets Prize at UB. Dana has written for Rigorous, Snail Trail Press, P-QUEUE, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, VIDA Review, and Zoomoozophone Review.
Playlist Poem—Gone
One can possess goneness
Senses owning states of missing being missed
Going gone
A lie is a moment where language goes missing
It collects bodily dust
Falls into creaky crevices
I fear it misses
riding uncertainty, there’s a pilotless plane
But can it sail
It can sail, it can go on
sale it can
join a world without being explorer without discovering
I hear kisses tasting memories
Of people who turn bells upside down and drink tea out of them
This planet of gone
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“Got ‘Til It’s Gone”—Janet Jackson, Q-Tip, Joni Mitchell
“Go DJ”—KAYTRANADA, SiR
“Orinoco Flow”—Enya
“Strawberry Letter 23”—The Brothers Johnson
“Since I Left You”—The Avalanches