Last night at Moe's I had the pleasure of hearing Hannah Weiner's work with the International Code of Signals performed by Patrick Durgin, Jen Hofer, Dolores Dorantes and Jesse Seldess, complete with walkie-talkies and alphabet signals in Spanish. Later in the evening, I had ANOTHER (count 'em) pleasure: hearing Jesse Seldess read "Present Surround" from his book Who Opens. The sound of it. Almost killed me. Here is the first page of the second page of the poem as it appears in the Kenning Editions edition:

Cast present surround



And blend awning over
Cast to develop


Impart to develop


To cast to develop



Excess you develop





And blend awning over
Excess to develop



Formation that develops


Excess and develop


Excess to develop



In supporting you proceed
And blend awning over
To be covered