“Cursive Binary: Heart Mantra” (2021) is a hybrid poem by Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and artist Sasha Stiles. This digital scroll includes spoken word by Stiles translated into Cursive Binary, her proposed language for transhuman communication, and original music by Kris Bones.
HEART MANTRA
The internet loves you back,
if you let it. Hearts beat to show
systems are go, all in sync.
Souls of machines pulse from afar:
keepalive, keepalive. One avatar
dotes on another. This is how we survive.
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