Linger (2022)
I choreographed Linger in collaboration with dancers David Bernal, Kevin Holland, and Samantha Kayombo. The piece features my poem, “Fern.”
I did not know they could send a fern in a cardboard box. Could pack the dirt the delicate wisps into the darkness, dispatched roots. Tear open, pull it out, the small sprigs, thin like floss running through teeth, feathery arms.
I did not know they could send a fern in a cardboard box. Could pack the dirt the delicate wisps into the darkness, dispatched roots. Tear open, pull it out, the small sprigs, thin like floss running through teeth, feathery arms.
You have heard it said benevolence evidently brings forth a flourishing, use speech with your plants of kindness. If you murmur death— death.
You have heard it said benevolence evidently brings forth a flourishing, use speech with your plants of kindness. If you murmur death— death.
Open your mouth, open the darkness and with luminosity see a hummingbird plants herself in front of your kind eye, she flutters beyond catching, she is a small felicity. For the first time in months, you laugh.
Open your mouth, open the darkness and with luminosity see a hummingbird plants herself in front of your kind eye, she flutters beyond catching, she is a small felicity. For the first time in months, you laugh.
“Fern”
I did not know they could
send a fern in a cardboard box.
Could pack the dirt
the delicate wisps
into the darkness,
dispatched roots.
Tear open, pull it out,
the small sprigs, thin like
floss running through teeth,
feathery arms.
You have heard it said benevolence
evidently brings forth
a flourishing,
use speech with your plants of
kindness.
If you murmur death—
death.
Open your mouth, open the
darkness and with
luminosity see
a hummingbird plants herself
in front of your kind eye,
she flutters beyond catching,
she is a small felicity.
For the first time in months,
you laugh.