Episode 22: Ersatz Ignatz

Connor and Jack discuss Monica Youn's "Ersatz Ignatz."

To read the poem, read below or go here. For more on Youn, follow this link. Go here to check out her collection Ignatz.

Ersatz Ignatz
By: Monica Youn

The clockwork saguaros sprout extra faces like planaria stroked by
               a razor. Chug

say the sparrows, emitting fluffs of steam. Chug chug say the piston-powered
               ground squirrels.

The tumbleweeds circle on retrofitted tracks, but the blue pasteboard welkin
               is much dented by little winds.

The yuccas pulse softly under the grow-light sconces.

Here is the door he will paint on the rock.

Here is the glass floor of the cliff.

He’ll enter from the west, backlit in orange isinglass, pyrite
               pendants glinting from the fringes of his voice.