When I choose which poems to make into films, I usually prefer for them to be previously unpublished (don’t get me started on the intricacies of first serial rights). However, “Lactic Acid” is one of those special ones that I felt belonged online, film, and even in print.

“Lactic Acid” was first published by a very awesome literary magazine Roi Fainéant. So, why pick this poem to make a film? “Lactic Acid” was a more personal poem and I wanted to put my own voice it, to read it and hopefully give a window into some of the introspection that can come from sitting alone in a place far from home.

Although the hotel room shown in this film was not the same place that the poem began (that was a year ago in an AirBnB in Lisbon), it was filmed in the same hotel as Reflection on Breakups at the Local Swimming Pool.

If you wish to see “Lactic Acid” in print, it can also be found in my debut chapbook “Shiftings & Other Coordinates of Disorder”.