Original Poem by Robert Frede Kenter: “Emergency Room (Triage)”

MD

Predatory gestures encounter & shadow nothingness, curtain eye wear in pulse of organized logic. Bodies stripped of clothing reduce me to a system, structures, procedures. Anomie, anonymous, anatomic, a suggestive catalogue of science, entropic categorization of catatonic, predatory logic, a logos of systems, where humor is encountered.

Brigands of Horror

We have rooms to speak from, gatherings to attend, gatherings of soldiers. In the annihilation of slaughter, workings of abstruse bodies are objects in an experiment.

Geometric

The channelled aftermath of triangles, a triage in an architecture of lines, a lineage of heaving, heavy lifting, a currency, boring into wood, metal, the personality, Imperial. Impersonal armies board buses before any decisions are made. Impersonations.

Culture

Impermeable matter. Permeable matters. Alma mater. Layers lifting off. Separating gowns. Plastic sheeting. Pain, the flowing diaphanous blood stream.

Robert Frede Kenter is an award-winning writer and visual artist, who collaborates with many creatives globally, and is the Editor-in-Chief/publisher of Ice Floe Press. Robert’s work emerges out of a convergence of dreamscapes and social interrogations connected to years living with autoimmune post-viral illness and a dis(able)d life. Published widely in books, anthologies, and journals, including Petrichor, Blood & Honey, Ballast, Harpy Hybrid, Olney Magazine, ABR, Storms Journal, Feral, Lost & Found Times, Acropolis, Streetcake Magazine, Watch Your Head, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pissoir, Winged Moon, Burning House, and innumerable other venues, online and in print. Recent books: Moonwriting (a collaboration with Catherine Graham) (Ice Floe Press, 2026), In the Blueprint of Her Iris (A collaboration with Vikki C.) (Ice Floe Press, 2025), and Father Tectonic (Ethel Zine, 2025). Social media: Instagram: icefloe22; r.f.k.vispocityshuffle. Bluesky: @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Twitter: frede_kenter.

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