BY DIRK VIS
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
Dirk Vis is a poet and (non-)fiction writer based in Rotterdam and London. He writes fiction, essays, scripts, and poetry, in Dutch and English. His published books include the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021), his non-fiction book Study Trip: Psychedelics for Research and Art (Set Margins', 2026) and the poetry collection Spiritmaking (Little Earth Mountain, 2026). Vis presented animations, chapbooks, performances and websites with his texts and directed several video works based on his scripts. In 2024 he was writer-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been translated to various languages. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and was a co-founder of De Internet Gids. Vis is a writing professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides regularly speaking and guest teaching internationally. Vis spends his working time between the Netherlands, London and forests everywhere.
BY DIRK VIS
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
Dirk Vis is a poet and (non-)fiction writer based in Rotterdam and London. He writes fiction, essays, scripts, and poetry, in Dutch and English. His published books include the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021), his non-fiction book Study Trip: Psychedelics for Research and Art (Set Margins', 2026) and the poetry collection Spiritmaking (Little Earth Mountain, 2026). Vis presented animations, chapbooks, performances and websites with his texts and directed several video works based on his scripts. In 2024 he was writer-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been translated to various languages. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and was a co-founder of De Internet Gids. Vis is a writing professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides regularly speaking and guest teaching internationally. Vis spends his working time between the Netherlands, London and forests everywhere.
BY DIRK VIS
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
Dirk Vis is a poet and (non-)fiction writer based in Rotterdam and London. He writes fiction, essays, scripts, and poetry, in Dutch and English. His published books include the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021), his non-fiction book Study Trip: Psychedelics for Research and Art (Set Margins', 2026) and the poetry collection Spiritmaking (Little Earth Mountain, 2026). Vis presented animations, chapbooks, performances and websites with his texts and directed several video works based on his scripts. In 2024 he was writer-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been translated to various languages. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and was a co-founder of De Internet Gids. Vis is a writing professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides regularly speaking and guest teaching internationally. Vis spends his working time between the Netherlands, London and forests everywhere.
BY DIRK VIS
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
These are the first two of fifteen invocations that come from the bi-lingual debut poetry collection Spiritmaking (English) and Maak geest (Dutch) published by Little Earth Mountain. The thirty poems together stem from a multi-year pilgrimage of studying through the use of DMT, where the series as a whole covers the trajectory of learning to reach the same state of mind of deep psychedelics through the activity of concentrated writing alone. Each poem is an invocation dedicated to a shared subjectivity.
i.
techno angel, ghost me
spread my openness
gift it to your sacred rain
spirit me away
to a glimmering lake of colour-time
dripping electric with desire
I imagine me in my body
limbs unfinished – oversized head
big eyes, pale skin from screen-living
the pain of all attention on myself: an alien
in the ruins of other-than-humans
we stray far from the wilds of Earth
as if already in outer space
you laugh at my hunger for time
adored like your desire
for immortality
ii.
tongueless licking from within
letters live in rainbow glow
a dance of vibrant colourmist
this earliest of spirits, archaic hi-tech
abundant, green, translucent
is very good at cleaving
while claiming she connects
between her words fit nights
you need lips, sometimes teeth
to touch bloodbodies, tickle nerve endings
a rolling tongue, lulling, lusciously
English loves it when it is she you speak
Dirk Vis is a poet and (non-)fiction writer based in Rotterdam and London. He writes fiction, essays, scripts, and poetry, in Dutch and English. His published books include the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021), his non-fiction book Study Trip: Psychedelics for Research and Art (Set Margins', 2026) and the poetry collection Spiritmaking (Little Earth Mountain, 2026). Vis presented animations, chapbooks, performances and websites with his texts and directed several video works based on his scripts. In 2024 he was writer-in-residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. His work has been translated to various languages. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and was a co-founder of De Internet Gids. Vis is a writing professor at the Piet Zwart Institute and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides regularly speaking and guest teaching internationally. Vis spends his working time between the Netherlands, London and forests everywhere.