What developments happen
by the third album;
is it even recorded?
does a subject know
its own implication?
what signal is there
seeping into the contra-
space of the red O?
O dearest voice, pass –
Michael Begnal is author of the collections Future Blues (Salmon Poetry, 2012) and Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007), the chapbooks Eight Memoranda and Tropospheric Clouds (Adjunct Press, 2025/2020) and The Muddy Banks (Ghost City Press, 2016). He has published two books on the Stooges, The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future (Routledge, 2022) and Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972-74 (Reaktion Books, 2026).