Lady Byrd meets Strutting Red Wing (from echo::system)
a schoolgirl daydreaming
(gen x equations) …
floating…
into membranes…
a plain of glittering minefields
to go deeper.
) expand particular moment
sense ocean
velvet lilac colors in the surface of the water
and of the body
no ghosts / just the sprigs of things
lovers as skunks—
no tire tracks
ladybird, ladybird,
rust and dream
fire grain oracles
the thump thump of gila mudmen
tattooed into the fork in the road
blue markings on her torso,
hours in dreamy near-dementia
machines that suppress Time…
She says:
“the first man I kill I take his skin and trade it for my own”
she notes the black of space: endless repetition creates a trance
“I am a bullet,” says Strutting Red Wing
she finally remembers to breathe, unaware his violent rupture has transformed
Strutting Red Wing says nothing
A great wall of porcelain arches up and out —
“Beautiful stability,” says Strutting Red Wing
but Lady Byrd wants to go higher
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*echo::system is an interactive media installation/performance initiated by Grisha Coleman, bringing together a spectrum of cross-disciplinary practices. As part of the original configuration, I created literary dna for the echo::system universe. http://echo-system.org