CHARLOTTE & EVERYONE: A CARDIOGRAM
Charlotte laughs,
echo,
tunnel house-to-house
tin-can
telephone/ hello hello hello
hello, dear/telephone
hello hello hello/Charlotte says
can
you hear me? Can you call me back,
I have an echo in my heart so says
the cardiogram, my heart is made of
echoes
room
of bush of berries, shadow
singular view of outside through shadow.
Ghosts live here, shadow, Charlotte
steals,
glues
berries to her fingertips,
its hard to answer the phone/hello hello hello
are you there? Show yourself to me
if you want
your
picture taken/hello hello hello—
Orb, three berries, each photo blurred,
each
line, disconnected, no longer
in service.
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MARTHA & CHARLOTTE
& EL: A THREE-WAY
If you could wrap
yourself in snow,
stick
yourself up inside
of
me—
inside around and a hoop
wrap,
fierce wind, a wind
dominated inside legs
uterus bravery
what
makes us brave?
What is inside courage—
Where our iciest insides, panic stricken
insides,
are our lives
wrapped like a halo, wrapped inside a halo.
What is bravery but fighting fear
with fear,
standing with fear, a wrapped fist of halo of snow
on head, about to jump off a building—
so
suddenly—
you are there
and then
you are not
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