The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo an astronaut’s fingerprints are left

an astronaut’s fingerprints are left in frost on a postbox

Diminished

rendered with sharp lyricism and cinematic intimacy

in south-western Russia

have really shown themselves to work

The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao #metoo an astronaut’s fingerprints are leftJay Gao's second collection is an ambitious book length poem that reimagines trees as sites of dreaming, language, and desire. Formally inspired by the commonplace book and medieval dream visions, Jay Gao's work unfolds through leaf like fragments and long, branching lines that stretch across the page, creating a serial, visionary rewiring between nature and language. Digging deep into land extraction, climate crises, invasive species and migration,