Love Attunes This Electric Flesh

21 January 2026

I. Love

A feeling, woven whole with choices,

else it glimmer just

to fade alone.

II. Attunes

The geometric unities of a tuned piano’s fractaled strings produce a sympathetic resonance:

a field of energy audibly matching the shape of matter—

III. This

This newborn baby is 78% water This water forms a field capable of charge This capable field intersects with awareness This intersection responds to observation This observation can be a prayer

IV. Electric

  live conductor / shapings           symmetry / attractor       of defector / receiver of quantum spin / transducer     forming / true / believer

V. Flesh

Alchemical geometries of gut and synapse, hum and neutron— plastic brainspoon—floodplains open, cells recycle, reciprocating shapes of the uncontainer—

about the author

D.W. Baker is a poet, reviewer, and editor from St. Petersburg, Florida. His poems appear in Identity Theory, BRUISER, Controlled Vocab Mag, and RESURRECTION magazine, among others, and have received nominations for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. His reviews and essays appear in Version (9) Magazine, BROKEN ANTLER, Philly Poetry Chapbook Review, and more. He edits poetry for Libre. See more of his work at www.dwbakerpoetry.com