In Peril as architectural enrichment I set out to test landscape as the subject of experience. Propelling awareness vertically and horizontally, the prose poems question how limbs want to move in space, when convivial with treetops, views, and pollen. They greet danger—lost narratives/crops, a fall, inundation—and the refuge of a familiar curvature: the turning of long lines becoming the same as building shelter in the wild where a peril can be seen and felt, and to write is to know what's near. I was seeking a new sense of orientation/a long-sought spatial fluency: "I want to ride in the fur of animals."
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