Bayani, Jason 2023
Blue Hour Reading Series with Jason Bayani and Jacob Saenz
Haymarket House
I’m waiting for the words to catch up to my heart which is
elliptical at the moment there’s an apology
even I am expecting to bore out of my throat
but what for what for
I am continuing to write in a font that displeasures me everything shifts so rapidly
my body the environment my body the environment
– Jason Bayani, “Someday, Again”
Watch Jason Bayani’s 2023 reading with Jacob Saenz at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Jason Bayani begins at 41:07 minutes.
It was said that in the beginning there was only the sea and the sky; not a spot of land and only the flying animals living between. And the waters were quiet. And the skies were always still. And, yet, everything moves around them, and there must be something that moves them, too. When we become aware of our wants, isn’t it then that we understand we are helpless to time? As all things must be.
– Jason Bayani, “Tesseract (excerpts)”
Watch Jason Bayani’s performance, “A Metric Expansion of Space”