Otherworldly holidays: in Conversation

A poetic rumination on the surreal intersection of necromancy, personal loss, and cosmic humor, blending reflections on psychomanteums, magic, and otherworldly holidays.

Dear Chad,

I surmised “Psychomanteum” was a portmanteau so surreally gussied it deserves an infomercial that proceeds documentaries about middle earth holidays. Holidays where “The animals rise, grateful / & ungrayed,” flora considering synthetic options. Only in a Foret opus does plant life germinate aided by palm plastic (“like a bright thorn began in …