Poetry. LGBT Studies. "let's begin/ there are mental facts/ as potent physical facts" begins obedience, the most recent collection of poems by nationally renowned poet and visual artist kari edwards. A kaleidoscopic rumination on "bodies of resistance" to the relentless erasures of time, obedience gathers its materials equally from the physical world and analytical accounts of it to offer a rhythmic disruption of the relative real, a progressive troubling of the phenomenal world, from gross material to the infinitesimal. "what time is it you say/ split between fingertips/ and what bleeds now" —from obedience.