(Images) 。゚☆: *.☽ (About) 。゚☆
Glass Poem, 2024
with Tiiu Meiner, read during OOOReading: Building With Words, Nieuwe Instituut, 2024, Rotterdam NL
ONE
Earth was late to orbit Sun
(she’s still on pre-history time)
we write ourselves into you, you reading,
circling, like the hand of a clock
we are your mother clocking center
prism baby, you refract,
do you still have space for us in your pop-corn brain?
we do not perpetuate Linear Time & Linear Time does not perpetuate us
only moments
passing through
this surface
but time exfoliates and begins again
today we leap
TWO
empty / filled with designed progress
this glass is with daddy’s money
filled / empty with sweet pink brains
dependent
bank account check
again
the glass, this glass could break any moment with an ambitious knock
so glassy
so glossy
but hide the grass stain, the glass stain
stuck
we are snakes eating ourselves in this glass jar
hungry/self-employed
this project ends
but time exfoliates and begins again
THREE
& there is water dripping
in our bedroom: room for rent with fountain feature,
marketing with mouthfuls of black mold
they don’t show this at the Biennale
rain circulates this planet since before mitochondria
figured life out
super fantastic water gymnastic swimming classes
start at 5pm
in the archives when they flood,
will I be a good fossil?
clock check
again
this circle is a clock cult
put a lid on it put a lid on us
before we all go bad
did anyone check the expiration date for this
compost choreography
corruption site
brothy boiling cesspit
in this fridge: tupperwares of air and spit
but begins again time exfoliates and
& so i do & so idea
FOUR
its hot
your hot
my hot
is it hot
all the ice melting between us
back into the sea
earth drama is trending in your area
deep time make-out session
you drink a glass of dinosaur spit
when we are done
she feels kind of oceanic lately
her tide is late
she is incubating
this air is the biggest collective project we participate in
breathe into this glass jar canto
— a panting choir
a mist of words becomes a lake over time,
becomes drained over time, becomes jacuzzi water
over time
dear guest,
SORRY for the inconvenience
the whirlpool is currently broken
to save on the energy bill
slimy, sticky, lubricated memory of this moment
steamy
petri-dish
disassociate
exfoliate
FIVE
meet us at the hydration station at the networking drinks
for collaborative incubation think tanking—
sincerely sinking
in the sink
a spill, a spell of sorts
HR says
breathe in
breathe out
a scam artist walking
towards the edge
looking at us
processing at us
encrypting us in its memory
NPC— empty
glances, gestures, games, goals
(de)forming
skin-care routine check
exfoliate
SIX
in the dark our throat is not much different from a drain
the drain is blocked
did anyone ask what the plumber dreams about?
time passes slower if you’re not having fun
everything is waiting just for us
, no rush :)
it ends we end
but time exfoliates and