Excess of Wolf & Other Halves

Isabel Farren
→BFA PT 2026

You don’t know this yet:
Toss an apple or rock up
Bread ants mud an eel
Could come down in its place
You just have to do it right, like
high enough over your head, So you cannot see it.
Understand that things like this happen, after which you can turn and say, how are you?
Like you’re not holding a fish in your hand.

Or otherwise:
When I’m walking down the street And
Looking side to side, there’s an object of distance that I, I can see myself in
and my body is bisected by the object of other objects And
My nose and stomach and tips of my feet are missing
Then, someone could walk up and ask something
Just ask something to be out loud And out of sight
Because they worry maybe that they’re not showing enough of The underside
And I’m looking sideways still, and After all, my stomach and my weakness
Is whacked off the front of me, and Even the fronts of my feet are gone
So, I’m bending forward

And:
Your pants might sometimes feel too broad
And maybe there’s a bit of something on the knee
And you want to change Instead, you can fill
Them up with some gravel to see them stand
On their own and know how you
Maybe look Or something

Certain looking-aways and turnings,
And Other near-images:
Spinning a glass around to drink out the other side—
Having the power to
Clap my hands and make it sound like a laugh—
A shirt ripping at my armpit and then my armpit—
My right arm fattening into a leg—
A bit of clay and a skyscraper—
The red spot of food on my brother’s face that
Looks like a hole in his head if I just back up a few steps—

Waiting for a certain grayness to pass us by
With our hands out—
That was a wolf, or a tornado
On top of each other, the excess matter would be a cone, paws, a trapezoid, a tail—

and Uh
Put on a coat to have four arms
Be by the wall to feel two worlds The dog is pretty
aware of this

If I lean a certain way and look out the window, your
waistband sometimes lines up with the horizon and I imagine
your torso flying, with your legs running the Other way

Isabel Farren wants to see very far.