are no longer

<p><em>are no longer</em> is an experimental poem that attempts to do as much as it says. It is on the one hand a spiritual narrative which details the poet's religious deconstruction and subsequent vision of cosmic unity in the heartbeat of his firstborn child; on the other hand the text itself re-enacts the nature of the poet's vision so that the reader experiences the heartbeat of the poet as merged with that of the cosmos in an endlessly creative present-moment. The poem is both an homage to the history of American ecopoetics and an advancement in the unique expression of W.J. Louis' voice</p>