If fields dissolve we will all yell, “phenomenon.”
It does not seem compatible; the looks, the feels, the moves, so vulnerable.
I come on top again, so level with the surface.
I crawled across that slick, my creep barely perceptible.
We all feel narrative, this slinky scale from left to right, but,
But am I narrative? This surface seems to say so.
I sink my knees into the earth, where air and land divide,
The knees grow firm and calloused, their movement now a mimicry.
We can’t forget the way it gets done.
Noise making mouths are on the run.
It culminates on this barrier,
And we forge their rhythm-destinations.
Object-naming time is fun.
Object-making time has come.
Nouns slide around on this barrier; drop them,
Touch them, push them, feel them, breathe them.
Insides outside, how they hum.
Is this the only way it gets done?
Lungs, windpipe, larynx, tongue, teeth, air;
Controlling, rolling, breath-shaped dare.
We trapped this wind and now we all accrue the capital.
This verdict is not criminal, this tell-tale wind, digestible.
Air, land, air, land, in air, on land,
I thinly coat the surface with firsthand presuppositions.
Wondering, wiggling, woozy with “when?”
Horizontal contributions turned resolved problem solutions.
From left to right again, I think it smells of varnish here.
This surface has veneer, not clear, a tactile residue.
We can’t forget the way it gets done.
Noise making mouths are on the run.
It culminates on this barrier,
And we forge their rhythm-destinations.
Object-naming time is fun.
Object-making time has come.
Nouns slide around on this barrier; drop them,
Touch them, push them, feel them, breathe them.
Insides outside, how they hum.
Is this the only way it gets done?
Lungs, windpipe, larynx, tongue, teeth, air;
Controlling, rolling, breath-shaped dare.
Controlling, rolling, breath-shaped dare.
Controlling, rolling, breath-shaped dare.
Gary Setzer is an interdisciplinary artist. His performances, installations, objects, videos, and recordings have been exhibited and screened internationally.
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