Beautiful Experiment

A map to the door of a fragile heaven.

closeup photo of brown log

This body is a landscape on the move, morphing to elude the easy mark. This animating force is interstitial pressure systems of fluid and light, now dark. This body is history, a possibility. It means to remember with total abandon, something denied. 

The vines of my tongue become tethers from which these limbs swing from the branches of a mother rumored obsolete but see my knee where it bleeds, cutting my skin against the rough bark of her refuge, finding mine––now a universe unto itself, now a fragment to rupture the worn sky.

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Inspired by the work of Felipe Baeza.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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