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Vitoria Pérez
HEADER PHOTO: 回路 © Toho, 2001
poetry, may 24
poetry, may 24
even the bones surrounding my eyes may
ache
their weight rolled around behind closed eyelids
these images never end, the
y are churned
from the depths
(Print!) of the ground gushing out
like the rusted taste of old, silent blood
old blood that gushes pus, that makes
way
for the sebum of the )insert))
past
to froth up
through the orifice separating
the planet{s plates
endless droning groan from space
fax marchine belonging
to the divine
it spits out memories of blood inching
up the walls, leaving memory
lines where
the water had been still for a mere moment
pray now children for the
sake of your father
blessed blessed holy holy, sing they now
their changeling chants that summoned
them out
of the woods, on
hands and knees crawling
for the rotting fence, the burnt old fire barrel,
the old wood-panelled trailer that bore cuts of meat
cuts of meat and dried venison, whose tongue lolled
parting its lips — do you know where you are?
do you recall, or is this a fragment of a dream
an image cut from the fabric of the towel
that scooped up your child body, that let
you float, your hands grasping for the daguerreotype
that you could not simply pass through your fingers
it slipped away like water and
you wondered where home was
you wondered where home was
you thought it was somewhere several interstates ago.
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
| Vitoria Perez is a multiethnic, multilingual poet from Louisiana. Her work touches upon obsolete and aging (per conventional standard) technology, and the Southern Gothic of the early 1900s. It moves in and out of discussing mental wellness and illness, struggles for worldwide worker’s liberation, and introspection as a queer woman of color. Vitoria’s work can be found published in Déraciné, Réapparition, Expanded Field, and elsewhere. |
download.scythe_program:revolucionaria!
Vitoria Pérez
HEADER PHOTO: 回路 © Toho, 2001
poetry, may 24
poetry, may 24
even the bones surrounding my eyes may
ache
their weight rolled around behind closed eyelids
these images never end, the
y are churned
from the depths
(Print!) of the ground gushing out
like the rusted taste of old, silent blood
old blood that gushes pus, that makes
way
for the sebum of the )insert))
past
to froth up
through the orifice separating
the planet{s plates
endless droning groan from space
fax marchine belonging
to the divine
it spits out memories of blood inching
up the walls, leaving memory
lines where
the water had been still for a mere moment
pray now children for the
sake of your father
blessed blessed holy holy, sing they now
their changeling chants that summoned
them out
of the woods, on
hands and knees crawling
for the rotting fence, the burnt old fire barrel,
the old wood-panelled trailer that bore cuts of meat
cuts of meat and dried venison, whose tongue lolled
parting its lips — do you know where you are?
do you recall, or is this a fragment of a dream
an image cut from the fabric of the towel
that scooped up your child body, that let
you float, your hands grasping for the daguerreotype
that you could not simply pass through your fingers
it slipped away like water and
you wondered where home was
you wondered where home was
you thought it was somewhere several interstates ago.
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
AUTHOR BIO
| Vitoria Perez is a multiethnic, multilingual poet from Louisiana. Her work touches upon obsolete and aging (per conventional standard) technology, and the Southern Gothic of the early 1900s. It moves in and out of discussing mental wellness and illness, struggles for worldwide worker’s liberation, and introspection as a queer woman of color. Vitoria’s work can be found published in Déraciné, Réapparition, Expanded Field, and elsewhere. |