Robot Portrait of Homo Futurus

by Seth Perlow
Book 5 of the Particle Series

***
When I told you
about getting

away, your mind
was excited, not
your body.

In other words,
you had it
backwards. Later

it smelled like
proximity & we
weren’t sure if

we had to untangle
ourselves first
&then suddenly

we evacuated []

***

Robot Portrait of Homo Futurus

$7

Particle Series

$50

Seth Perlow lives in Ithaca, New York, where he co-curates the SOON reading series. He is a doctoral student in English at Cornell. His poetry and translations have appeared in Opium, Horse Less Review, elimae, Carousel, The Cortland Review, Revista Respiro, the anthologies Connecting Lines and New Pony (forthcoming from Horse Less Press), and elsewhere.