DIY

Attempting to make body products using natural ingredients

#19

my left shoulder linked me to the world as one pivotal point connecting my intuition to reality it allowed me to extend my hand easily   and then it was hit and then this left shoulder froze up and then it didn’t want to move any more and it rebelled against any kind of movement…

#16

Ok, so I need to go out of order in order to make some headway with this poetry challenge. So be it.   the spaces in between cause no rattle no, the soft tissue wrapped strong yet pliable the rhythmic pulse and a quiet whimper more of a strained wheeze though this sound is not…

#9

symptoms: constantly running in some respects a good thing constantly turning and thinking and speculating you try to hold it in your mind but it transforms into something else diagnosis: i see now that you have trouble being stationary do you feel as though you are carrying something you can’t get rid of? an invisible…

#6

i don’t care who gets the ring who wears it who has the lamps and the cleaning supplies and don’t you know there are hearts now everywhere? like the kind that said hellooooo and after a long yawn and that the stuff is no longer here i don’t care split it a million ways and…

#2

plastic granite table filled with phat beats ridge around the edge cut up yourself up when you bump and try to fill this feast of plenty feast of a thousand songs playing in plentiful unison heartbreaking to soulful whisperers in the dark in the darkness you look better you can see you how a book…

all night 

sweat room full of magenta purple  bright light pans every corner tiny moving reflections circle the room expanding into points warped by their orbits and 90s house beat vibrating basslines that carry us across warm mid levels with synthetic piano  dancing shadows move in a small room crowded  empty each one alone even in the…

slowing down

occasionally  the signal from the body the initial conversation  what it does to get your attention the questions it asks of you and the mind moves slow the muscles don’t feel like struggling  like pushing they look for smoothness smooth edges no jagged points and no bumps and when they come  body closes it’s eyes…

the time for rebuilding

night time is for recalibration  body breaks into a million pieces before the sun rises when it does i go to collect them the heart goes first the nice thing is that it’s the first thing to come back and it’s beating distinctly by the time the rest of the body is in order night…

to move mountains

maybe the immediate pain could trigger a release that would be so much greater than the miniscule point experienced and you would see the kind of shift that would move mountains and then you would truly know you are capable of so much