“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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