FAITH AND INTENTIONS

BY MIKE CALLAGHAN

give a rat
a tiny electric car

its going to drive it mouth open permanently unblinking to pick up froot loops

forgetting the problem or believing it solved feed your friends

emotions and opinions choices and contradictions magic and philosophy

beautiful experiments briefly gorgeous

Mike Callaghan interrogates the subtlety of gesture and the subtlety of difference in a moment when frameworks of relationships are at once prominently visible and exhaustively hidden. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including ZYZZYVA, Der Greif, Crooked Teeth, Barzakh, Otoliths, Black Mountain Press, and The Shanghai Literary Review. He earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.