TWO DAYS
Thom Eichelberger-Young
1 Day (五八事件)
May 9th, 1999 AP file photo taken by Greg Baker showing student protestors outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after the May 7th US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, which killed three Chinese journalists and injured dozens of diplomatic staff. –– Greg Baker for AP
Black triangles erupt from distant cloud cover Our intergalactic saga commences Mass alteration Erroneous hardware Suddenly, someone says:
May the conflicts that bring the world death be appeased Late night teledecking Braindrill Surgically wanton Connections develop during the downtime lag between images Dreams where people enjoyed your presence No different than History Mired in longevity, legacy, memory work The institute was housed in a barn—no, there’s a box of books in a barn in the Berkshires Don’t you know whose or why? Geospatial recognizance index: foliage woodland [helicopter triad overlaid in red sights] digital [summer] [the difference is the arrival of a maneuvering squadron] [Reticular] [Array] animal zebra stylish camouflaging seamless [look at them hug] [rain down the jumpers] foliage wine leaf reversible [mental disposition] temperate FIELD OF LEAVES // GIDEON illusion immolation as “suicide” foliage pantera [track the convoy’s movements into the stand of trees] Snakes across the rock lands HORSES PASSENGER JETS MEDALLIONS BLACK TRIANGLES snakes which look for children Maximize harm Run times tables so animal puma Foliage ERDL imagined natural scenarios Natural as the hand off between agencies This was the only bombing organized by the CIA and Can you spot the difference between these two images? Where image reads nations Several of us in the haycocks, our eyes still up on that ruption Weather splinter & We need eyes to that point at all times—look at the difference between 9am and 3pm A personnel carrier has appeared The long barrel of the gun Could it be a branch? Strichtarn or “line camouflage” Enmeshed soviet Want to believe assimilative fabric See also: RPF See also INTERCESSIONAL FRAGMENT half the book to cover backdrops Does that artist presently recall each genocide they witnessed? In use 1965-90 scratch—I could revise this for you Animal rock bird Us in demotivation Capitalist demilitarized zone X press X site “is inactive” Foliage flecktarn Missile insects Jets’ weather Successive incursions into the same terrains led to the development early in this century of the popular all-purpose multicam Of course, it was woven for America Diamond formation of the carpet bombers The torso of a butterfly Disruptive to this as documentation A mirror of a chapter A mirror of a book Can you close out history? Animal: disruptive Spot the sniper in a gothic forest The admission of harboring the Yugoslav military does not alter the egregious initiation of our violent conspiracy
1 Day (In Novel Form: عةَ لْ ق الِن َساء َ)1
missile fragment warning
Glass Whitelight Clearing Stretch Unalike call and switchback ‘call’ All rouse RUN_PROGRAM ‘Could’ say recur as alt-def AWAKEN Midden root, unfolding pulsing SOURCED same page as OVERHANG “[X] would force [X’s] entry” tense, shift Awoke to body comfort There is still psychic order “More rash than the next” Murmurs you mean you know? Only, shown is all Square frame of manicured nail The handgripped shrapnel Read warning punctured Mercator adorned by streamers Our lost brother Mounted Hot crusader Expanding kinetic operations The day the other author died they sang despot “The Captain of the troop coming in, interposed [X] in such words” Tired phone call Caught bowel—baby steps Groaning subterraneans Let the fluids pour out Screen which holds By night to New York Helium distorted algorithm “all swoln with anger” When I ask for money and Gertrude chides of mammon Her reflection knew complicated nearness Summoned citation to the Point of Reference universal or particular Positionality Trigger vitrine Museum cabinet’s displayed Votive Is that the bluebird of happyness? “Had [X] advanced far”—Caught up in mad paisley Flight pattern Artificially dissipated After a night After ‘the experiment’—“[X] might discern such a hushness and melancholy in all the people, as recalling into [X’s] mind” Becomes lateral shadow & bone “[Their] death presented nothing but confusion to [X]” I want to be with and gave up the ghost You know they did a number on that one But will you clock them as the enemy when they persecute this infected revolution? “Troubled with these thoughts, [X] came to the court gates wch were guarded by a body of men unknown to [X]. [X] advanced, being not so much respected as before, though [X] did not much mind it, [X’s] heart leaping within [X] to know [X] was so near seeing...”
1The image of shrapnel from a presumed MQ-9 Reaper drone strike in Northwestern Venezuela was reported on X and sourced later from Twz.com (The War Zone) as reported January 2nd, 2026, only hours prior to undeniable US military ground incursion into Venezuelan territory.
Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist and editor living in Buffalo, New York. Their recent projects include the books PULL, FORYOUv1, ANTIKYTHERA, OINTMENT WEATHER, and a number of collaborative releases across media with Lizabetta Frankline.