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the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
BLACK EPISTEME NO. 9:
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BLOOD—
JONAH MIXON-WEBSTER
that when I wake in it,
my body turns the earth with its gnashing
that when I find it in my hands, I do not
recall my name. Here, I offer you
a truism. I am not speaking of a cut,
nor the way my stomach split
to touch my back to the bullet, but
of what remains in the image of loss—
how it is signifier and referent at once,
how it pulls from my unending mouth,
how at this moment
I am sitting in a mess of it
waiting for my own legs to stand—
how I could leave it
as a sign that reads: I wuzn’t even here
I wuzn’t even here at all
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