photo by harrison wayne
score for an apparition
Settle.
Hands like a weather vain.
Look over your shoulder. Look forward. Turn around.
Repeat.
Form dissolves.
Remember. Fall back.
Remember. Fall in.
Remember. Fall down.
Return to the altar.
Repeat indefinitely.
score for nostalgia / 1
Where the water suddenly feels
you’re swimming with ghosts.
Chalk mark circles around your body
Cheeks and fingers salty.
Kicking to keep your head above water
Feet back on the pavement
Drop from the bars: shiver up the shin.
Find your way out
To the warm sunny unfolding late afternoon
*weather induced nostalgia*
feel the ache your/my legs.
toward the sun
dip over green high grass.
quick scrolling
over the not so clear
scrap that floats to the top
release pressure
exhale
body drops down under the surface.
Remember the song that played.
*I’m listening to it now
score for nostalgia / 2
feel into
the space between your lowest rib
attention towards
shut the door. lay
thinking about
Fictional Moment.
Trace down arm. Holding
Back. There.
rain begins. walk outside to look.
score for haunting / 1
1 /
Lay down.
Feel your bones sink into the soil.
Close your eyes.
Remember a place: a room. A home.
Think of yourself moving through the space.
2 /
Draw the space
Outline your pathway
3 /
You’re in the space. Transpose your memory on top of memory.
Follow your pathway: move however you wish.
Stop and look when you want
Retrace/ Reverse
Exit.
For a group:
2 / Don’t cross over others pathways. No touching.
3 / Cross over others pathways. Encounter. Touch.
score for saying goodbye / 1
climb to a peak.
A roof and a mountain.
Look out at darkness.
Look out at blue.
Pull flowers from a window and
store in a bag.
Smoke a cigarette.
Turn off the lamp.
score for saying goodbye / 2
drive down a familiar road
home
run 2.22 miles
look up at
wide open blue
count the brick in the path that lead to
away from
score for desire / 1
score for desire / 2
Breathing like a soft balloon
Over you.
tender hands on throat
index finger presses
Collarbone trace
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Humeral head.
Chin up.
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Knees desperate to touch.
*Desperation in general.
“What’s in it for me"
Dead moth against the window.
Smooth resting place from an explosive.
(I) (!) can’t help it.
golden crown. see through me
honey.
Fall apart.
Back to back.
Turn me around.
Daisy against the wall.
Echo
all the way down
Close the distance
*please
score for desire / 3
a solo:
drive 778 miles south.
find a field.
set a timer for 5 minutes. sit. weep.
walk away.
