not with a bang but with a sigh
Deborah Slater Dance Theater Residency 2023
I came here to let you what’s next
whats coming soon … to news channels and papers and whispering mouths
I won’t name it directly, We’ll just call it (snaps fingers) for now.
You will choose to forget my words and replace that space with an abyss. But the day things start to shift - your picture of reality that is - you’ll remember that I came to let you know what’s next
I’m not telling you to do anything that requires fight or flight. What I see is beautiful - inevitable.
I’ll experience it just like you, In that way I’m not special. We’ll both feel it shake our humanity and the ground under our cold feet. Gorgeous.
It goes like this:
The birds will fly like smoke.
Every passing person will hold eye contact.
Barometric pressure will shift to an all time low.
The game will be rigged.
you will see something and say nothing
The newscaster will faint on air.
even the sidewalk will buckle
you will dream about basking in red light
A glass will shatter at a toast
baggage will be left unattended
The lights will flicker.
someone will shake your hand and say ‘you’re beautiful’
The traffic will finally stop
The sky will turn that color - you know - that color that to this day is unnamed.
say i am you
Post:ballet Season 13 commission, 2022
say it begins with me walking in a circle, and you watching me
say the moon has rotted
say she was waiting to be watched
say i don’t know how this pattern happens
say its dissolving
say nothing
say what it is to be alive right now
say i am you
Say ….. Well, you say I am…
Say it begins in the brightest part of the room, close to the front, near you, watching me.
Say I believe in gravity,
Say man and his symbols, say bud of my anxiety, say you cannot sing,
Say you're exploring ecological resistance on a local level,
Say what it’s missing, say the science of life,
Say it’s a paradigm shift, say it’s the cartography of the body,
Say who made the map, say the moon has rotted.
Say she was waiting to be watched.
Say I don’t know how this pattern happens, say its dissolving,
Say nothing.
Say it begins with me walking in a circle, and you watching me.
Say I believe in gravity,
Say man and his symbols, say bud of my anxiety, say you cannot sing,
Say you're exploring ecological resistance on a local level,
Say what it’s missing, say the science of life,
Say it’s a paradigm shift, say it’s the cartography of the body,
Say who made the map,
Say from now on I’m going to have fun.
Say what it is to be alive right now.
Say it ends with us mouthing the words.
Say it now.
I’ll say it now. Or another time, when we can be more private- and you’ll say “the day the flower unfolded and morning blossomed when you opened your soul to the world dreaming of the place i am standing now, the world where I say i am you.”
You say who i am.
But say I got tired and resorted to heroism.
Say every word I speak will change your perception of what happens next.
Say we dissolved.
Say “I want the beginning, only the beginning.”
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BODYSONNET season 3, 2022
text is an erasure poem from 10 years of rejection letters.
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