{"id":312653,"date":"2026-07-01T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/?p=312653"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:36:34","slug":"two-poems-by-alison-lubar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/two-poems-by-alison-lubar\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Myself Into the Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Knitting into the Algorithm, into Infinity<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Instagram insists on red light therapy, a pink plastic <br>eye mask that glows like a ruby-geode inside, <br>Zorro illuminated and self-conscious, afraid of <br>aging. Each fissure chips at the issue: I am un-<br><br>afraid to die. I am just kidding. Death is <br>a blind date, sure as Emily\u2019s carriage <br>is right on time. My small dog took <br>her own ride six months ago, was picked up <br><br>by eternity. Her atoms have a kind of immortality. <br>If matter is never created or destroyed, each white <br>and orange hair that still sticks in the weave <br>of a blue acrylic sweater shows something\u2019s left. <br><br>When I knit and a long dark hair of mine twists <br>into the yarn, I keep it there. Let me be littered <br>into the future. Let me be threaded into its fabric, <br>of something you wrap yourself up in to stay warm.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">i have forgotten how to write and all i can do is eat.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">powdered french onion soup mix makes potato chip dip. i pretend <br>i\u2019ll only eat the curled ones, and then finish the bag anyway. soup <br>from last summer with roadside tomatoes from someone else\u2019s <br>garden. add frozen, then thawed, then squeezed spinach to every-<br>thing\u2013 green must be good. i am trying to feed everything that is empty. <br>remember when i aspired only to wear a whip-cream bikini? to be seen <br>as dessert, strategically placed maraschinos glistening. i cannot undo <br>these early mythologies. i have tried eating hearts, half-heartedly, <br>to feel whole. chicken yakitoried ones at my first bachelorette, <br>two hours before a wide bouncer carried me out, and i clung <br>to his front like an infant creature. i no longer drink to forget. <br>making anyone\u2019s grandma\u2019s recipe is one way to bring back <br>the dead. now, it\u2019s the defrosted red cherries and their aftertaste <br>of dirt, and ask the piecrust first why dust to dust and not earth to earth?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knitting into the Algorithm, into Infinity Instagram insists on red light therapy, a pink plastic eye mask that glows like a ruby-geode inside, Zorro illuminated and self-conscious, afraid of aging. 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