Jack Kerouac scholar and poet Daniel Dissinger presents his poem “blend”, a work of pacing, breathing, and the consummate wildness of intimacy. With lines as steady and fractured as repeated breaths, Daniel allows a window into intimacy, presented here as both something secret and sacred. This is a poem which forces the reader to breath along with it.
blend
to move like black hole
like concentrated energetic effort
some premonition
chased into the hills
we stop to(o)
grab hold of our breath
to(o) caress
the oxygen
of it all
some other way
to(o) experience wildness
like
follow his pulse
to her pulse to(o)
their mouths closing
in on each other’s bodies
like
clandestine
and angelic —-and
peace—full
Daniel Dissinger
Daniel Dissinger is an Associate Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California, creator & host of the award-winning podcast Writing Remix, host & creator of The Nostalgia Test Podcast, a poet, Kerouac scholar, and writing coach. In 2021, he co-created an international network of academic podcasters called The Humanities Podcast Network, which has hosted workshops at Stanford, UCSB, and Macalester College, published an online handbook on teaching podcasts in the classroom, and has held an annual international symposium since 2021. The fourth symposium is in the planning stages for October 2024.
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