writing emails often
cause me to wither from
my fingertips

plonking words clunkily clumsily
from my digits dripping onto
the screen

at the very WPM my will
to live she plummets
and no matter what I type

gripe

another me sat in my belly tries
not to believe this be what is passed
what I sometimes have to pass as writing
writhing why this thing

writhe

as funner things I know must
be lying there for me to do — ‘most
anything else I’d rather be

can writing it even be called
unless there be wreathes involved
but I suppose in them electronic missives

my own perhaps it entails

trails

entrails

…

Jeremy Fernando reads, writes, and makes things. He is the general editor of Delere Press; curates the thematic magazine One Imperative; is the Jean Baudrillard Fellow at The European Graduate School; co-creator of the private-dining experience, People Table Tales; and the writer-in-residence at Appetite, the sensorial laboratory exploring the cross-roads of food, music, and art. Most recently, he has — alongside his dear friend, the realist- figurative painter and fellow lover-of-food, Sara Chong — brought-forth their book, Dinner for One, a space in which recipes, paintings, photographs, tales — of, on, about, with, containing, alongside— ingredients, kitchen encounters, meals, memories of culinary experiences, recountings of memorable noms, gather.