places where i have dissociated
a collection of art, photography, poetry, and prose about -- well, places where we have dissociated. with contributions from aífe kearns, a real ghost, constantin ciornei, crumbs, djordje matic, laramie danger, livali wyle, roan mackinnon runge, rowan morrison, rufus elliot, and waverly sm.
a collection of art, photography, poetry, and prose about -- well, places where we have dissociated. with contributions from aífe kearns, a real ghost, constantin ciornei, crumbs, djordje matic, laramie danger, livali wyle, roan mackinnon runge, rowan morrison, rufus elliot, and waverly sm.
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“letter to myself”<br />
I took,<br />
raisin memories, sun dried and small,<br />
Attempted witchcraft, syrup bottles,<br />
Blessing, little dark,<br />
The baby pictures;<br />
Beast of mirror and shadow,<br />
Angel of hands and skin,<br />
I wanted to be sure to reach you.<br />
I took,<br />
What I hoped was the right path.<br />
Drumlins and graveyards,<br />
Staring along canal banks and ocean edges,<br />
I found,<br />
glimpses of you in<br />
Sketch books and turf banks<br />
and the face of a girl with a gap in her teeth.<br />
I took,<br />
Long breaks from reality.<br />
And looked in poems and pages,<br />
Wrote down quotes.<br />
I found escapism’s good side<br />
And to my surprise, other people<br />
Who lived there.<br />
I learned<br />
There are mountain ranges I will always recognise, And rooms<br />
I will remember even long after they <strong>have</strong> burned down.<br />
The dumb animal in me is conditioned to respond to certain cues.<br />
History was always meant to <strong>have</strong> geography.<br />
I say to you,<br />
Forgive yourself the present. You didn’t choose<br />
for it to be gone, now. The tongue of the ocean wraps around rocks<br />
too thinly to soften then in real time, but I <strong>have</strong> to believe in geology.<br />
As I believe in ecology. Organisms adapted to environment.<br />
I hope to reach you soon.<br />
aífe kearns
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