when the whole world is a war zone & everyone's a target : i choose love i choose … Continue reading Contact Zone – A Poem for Peace
Contact Zone – A Poem for Peace
Contact Zone
when the whole world is a war zone & everyone's a target : i choose love i choose … Continue reading Contact Zone
Straif
My name is wound : open violence open e trating silence write wound across my chest; scratches, marks in blood in flesh pull me screaming from the silence: word into this world of darkness [my death: certified] in blueblack ink suspension of time [iron: gall] the bitter stain … Continue reading Straif
11/11 Kali : Un Coup de Des
Nemesis black [w]hole undone and un creating the abyss - dice thrown the game : personified in DNA encoded embodied naked flesh she counts the stars swallows them [w]hole Inside my mind is bleeding dying … Continue reading 11/11 Kali : Un Coup de Des
Undone Tongue
Undone tongue find glistens my shivering heart undone soul my find won't my tongue: words seamless glistens. come undone. tongue seamless won't soul; heart my cold glistens - seamless heart won't find! seamless tongue undone undone heart: words words words cannot - undone come. I find my shivering, seamless, undone tongue my cannot tongue undone … Continue reading Undone Tongue
Navratri Poem
Nine-line Navratri poem: a collage of ideas, words and pictures [a dialogue with Bhanu Kapil] The pungent smell of my hot thick blood poured over knotted limbs … Continue reading Navratri Poem
Aphrodisios #Budget2015
unnoticed unborn unvoiced under you under me underclass you hate everything i do or you just don’t see me i creep unseen and uninvited through the loopholes of your world insidious inseparable from systems designed to hide … Continue reading Aphrodisios #Budget2015
Post-Apocalypse
This ekphrastic response to Andy Warhol's Atomic Bomb, 1965, was written as an exercise for my Writing from History course on the MA. It draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 1936 (Illuminations, Ed. Hannah Arendt, 1968), and is also influenced by this reading of Warhol's image … Continue reading Post-Apocalypse
(Soma)tic Poetry
[*This post contains explicit language and references to sexual violence*] This week in our Experimental Writing class, we've been working with some (Soma)tic Poetry ideas by CA Conrad from the book A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012). (Soma)tic Poetry is designed to open up our creativity by stepping outside the realms of 'normal' writing practice, … Continue reading (Soma)tic Poetry
Homecoming
Uncaged I step into my full moonlight: glittering starbright on this mountain top. My roots, diving into You, grow like trees - stronger, deeper, surer. Alive. So truly my own Self: I spread my butterfly wings... And fly. 'The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation' Ps.118:14 Illustration by QuirkyJoe
Sally-Shakti Willow 