The Experiment will Not be Bound

I am honored to have three of my Psychogeographic Map poems included in the anthology, The Experiment Will Not Be Bound released February 2023. Special thanks to EIC Patrick Davis and to assistant editor Cory Firestine and Unbound Edition Press for putting this out. We always need more experimental literature.

The two Psychogeographic Maps are part of a a diptypch with the two poems taking place in the Tiergarten at different times of the year, in this case the Spring and the Fall.

I ride my bike around Berlin a lot, often with my dog Zuzu in the basket. I ride through the Tiergarten to the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden as a kind of loop. Every time I enter the inner city Tiergarten I am transported. The sounds are dampened, especially in the fall when all the burnished leaves pad the trail or Weg

The Tiergarten, in English literally means “animal garden,” it is what we in America would call a lush park. The difference being you can sometimes still feel as though you are in the old 16th century hunting grounds of the Elector of Brandenburg. There are still lots of rabbits and birds, but the wild boar stay outside Mitte, like most locals, and confine themselves to the hinter regions.