“extra-terrestrial confirmation of tree rings”

by Andrew F Giles

- when invisible secrets rigged on earth, whose 

metal casements, whose searchlights unberth 

& from the casements blink at the peninsula,

the mark which he which he which backward 

& forward concentric rings, when those hands

push, hands that blur under scrutiny, but push

-  that historic fuck, whose no is written – whose 

jacket of steel, whose short-sighted distant things

Andrew F Giles writes poems, reviews and creative nonfiction, with recent work in Dark Mountain Project, Abridged, Feral, Stone of Madness and Queer Life, Queer Love (Muswell Press, 2021). He lives and works at Greyhame Farm, a permaculture project, creative residency, and rural safe space for queer folk and their allies.