Joe's Marginalia: in THE FIRST FLAG, by Sarah Fox

So these are the symbols?

Dictated poetry?

ergo political

mother as danger

male parthenogenesis

fecundity

the transformation

into mother

a monster?

hierarchical differences

human / earth

body replaces

bone cage

“A Vision in a Dream”

wedding

like Plath

(how she wrote not

how you think she wrote)

one must handle words as neonates

“essay”

dispersion indeed

Why^TM?

How pronounce “Pwah!”?

combines two strains

i.e., would

I-Ching hexagrams

Fuck-u poem

This one more Antin [David] than Antler?

pleasantly chatty a la O’Hara

Is this transitional?

Footnote Numbers in Body Text

“after completion”

Kristeva, Irigaray / Klein, Jung

reader

relation of history to myth?

Paradoxes and Oxymorons

great!

SP;QR

of poems?

hopeful vision –

but not “beyond gender”

image+text

from “I cut”

like anatomy drawings

womb

tomb

C-section

resists further marking

D.E.S.

* father

re-wombing

electrical – cyborg

horses

Return of Patriarchy

Herr Doktor-Vater

shades of Iatrogenic --> spec-po

All one dream?

Aftermath

Ursula > devouring mother

shadow(s)

crows

Future

“medicine” & “poison”

coma – real?

comma – yes

re-birthing

+ dead babies

rein-

carnation

Alchemical cycle

centered

Object Relations – Projective Identification

                Tower – Cauldron

[chiasmus across the Comma (cut)?]

tower/well --> penis as inside-out vagina

story

yikes!

Brenda-Coultasy direct address

what is it w/horses?

Do they exist outside

human gender-codes?

Yes and no.

& bears

not nec. good

for the soul – or body

Lets things be overdetermined

(in the original (psychoanalytic) sense.

Jung was a science-making daddy.

like the deer carcass

dream + waking intermingled

once upon a

lots of Rome here

ha!

what’s time got to do with it?

Mr. Honey is creeping me out, here

mortality

that sounds like time

ref. to “Comma”

back to the tone of parts 1 & 2

satire

Dante’s big rosebud

Epona + Sequanna

D.E.S.

yikes

Vicuñesque

the glowing teeth earlier

Father with a Thousand Faces

found deer parts

turning point

present tense

buck to her doe

conclude & contain

ends w/real placenta

as it must