Old Second Law

By Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

How soon are we beginning to realise that we are differently same attachment of one cultural history? In what situation our face becomes our mind, and we see smell evaporating? Why our physical experience of the world is displayed alongside the pieces of our imagination? This is a short collection of haiku with related materials written in more modernist style, dealing with such forms of objects and their situations in chaos and that illuminate parallel visions existing between the way the modern artist seeks to understand oneself and such actions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
• Release date: Mar 19, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224527045

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

Jacob Kobina Ayiah  Mensah[(╥║│═╚╣╕╞│╬╕─╕╣│╘╘╞╚╕─│Ħ) (also known in the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota, as Sitting Mountain)], a self-made Ojibwa, Basque, Catalan, Spanish, gypsy, a Black African tribe and Greek descent and a multilingual poet, multidisciplinary artist, and algebraist, works in mixed media. His most recent poetry chapbook is Kind Haven (The Operating System, 2020) and a full-length poetry collection in Spanish, agua y color, is forthcoming from Valparaiso Poetry Press. His poetry, songs, prose, art and hybrid works have appeared in numerous journals, including JMWW, Constellations, New Note Poetry, Chapter House Journal, Red Ogre Review, Newfound, The New Southern Fugitives, Inverted Syntax, The Elevation, Moon Shadow Sanctuary, Passenger Journal, Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal, Millennial Pulp Literary Magazine, Trampoline, 1-70 Review, Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh, The Meadow, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Rigorous, The Decadent Review, FOLK Magazine, Wards Lit Magazine, Cadinal Sins, zines + things, Juked, Juke Joint Magazine,  The William and Mary Review, Helen Literary Magazine, In Parentheses, Genre: Urban Arts, Roanoke Review, filling Station, Hawk & Whippoorwill, The Indianapolis Review, The Sandy River Review, Blackbox Manifold, Cordite Poetry Review, Amethys Review, Rogue Agent, Whimperbang, Emerys Journal, Night Music Journal, Cantos: A literary and Arts Journal, Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Thirty West Publishing House, Aaduna, Terror House Magazine, Ygdrasil: A Journal of the Poetic Arts,  Castabout Art & Literature, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Hooligan Magazine, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Otoliths, Oddball Magazine, UTSANGA, Pithead Chapel, Wingless Dreamer, Cathexis Northwest Press, University of North Dakota, Meat for Tea, Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems and others. His works in abstract mathematics include Arthur Algebras, Haiku Algebra, c-Algebra, Ỽ-Functions, Nortan Group, and Epic Ring. He lives in the southern part of Ghana, in Spain, and the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota.

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Contents

Author’s Note

Part 1

In the monster’s bones   Burning the margin  庵のストレッチ  His chopsticks and paintbrushes

Part 2

Oberoende nyans

Deep, deep down the blow  Floating behind  Kiven läpi  Another body

Part 3

Unang asul na petsa

From a newspaper  Merenung dirinya sendiri

Whispering  Una entrada no para todos  Coses tapes  Hutsean

The rest of Monday

المسافة بين

To love is to hate everything

Author’s Note

Fractal forms are very fascinating in the way they pose questions about the nature and human nature of life activity in the past, in the present and in the future. These forms are ubiquitous in nature and in human nature.  I am searching for formulation to show this understanding by acting upon these questions, and by tracing such actions. These questions are visions becoming the highlights of this work written in English with Finnish, Swedish, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Malay, and Tagalog to form a better