Two paper cutouts (poem) Book update: pre-orders will start shipping out around August 18th. Aus/NZ copies will take a bit longer.

I'll read you another poem from my book, "A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension." This poem's all about the idea of traveling too a higher dimension, and we can imagine what that would be like for a 2D creature. As they twist around in 3D space, they see slices of our world, a dizzying array of cross sections and shapes they don't understand. Two of them side-by-side could lose each other if one turned their neck so that their friend was out of their vision. As I was writing my book, I often played with cutouts like these to imagine us in a 4D space, so this is two paper cutouts. I lost you even though I'm standing still. I turned my neck, things went downhill. I didn't want this kind of thrill when I booked us tickets to Forzeville. I see other people's faces and unfamiliar spaces. I see new shapes and new places. They should have given us neck braces. Like a lost flattling, I am turning. In 4D space, stomach churning, I'm a little paper cutout yearning to find you and know that I'm returning. Scanning, I catch a glimpse of you. Doubling back, you're now in view. You grab my arm, I grip yours too, and keep my eyes on yours like glue. To read more poems and words like this, you can pre-order my book at tvs.com. Thank you.