returning to our abstracted days
returning to our abstracted days, poem written by Nat Raha for a workshop with F.A.M in April, 2021.
returning to our abstracted days
shrunk contours / condensed
spectacular :: dailiness as defeat to the collective
relations for living / remade
by what hands could give
the skills we honed to bear each others’ bodies
physically[,] distanced
all we’ve forged in scarce collections of living
pulling & planting, hoisted &
hammered, stirred served
/ ,
rents tense bear our necks
turn homes / ocean & ashen
so now left
fork what plans the wage has for us
talk & trial frayheld
scope in biopolitic
– take intentions filing body through doors
becomes the day we see these creatures
mediating what of ourselves we bring back to each other
,, how we’ve been & weathered
the depth of the wrecking of our lives
this whole quiet at
water lines we relearned to sing / sense
re/appropriate drawn nearnesss &
bubbling suns
ripple scarce so slight
the skills we honed bear bodies
each other across difference –
proximities scuff by flow / fearstate
embedding further walls
& the already disappeared / torn floors
massified disposable
threaded by the fork in the bars
de/sol/ace
the power our selves place
in the everyday, what will
continue to survive us together
timbre lain scopes loss
out toward assembly,
relearning words & chants
& the matter of us
languages
, motion
of arms,
joints, bones, hold what grief / feelings
break to magnetise,
by the violence further wished for us,
its torrid hands wrung,
these bonds abstracted
kept to instigate
,
stranger, trust takes forms atoned
, meeting where a waterline
sibling, how do you name yourself
after Diane di Prima, 15.4.21
returning to our abstracted days
shrunk contours / condensed
spectacular :: dailiness as defeat to the collective
relations for living / remade
by what hands could give
the skills we honed to bear each others’ bodies
physically[,] distanced
all we’ve forged in scarce collections of living
pulling & planting, hoisted &
hammered, stirred served
/ ,
rents tense bear our necks
turn homes / ocean & ashen
so now left
fork what plans the wage has for us
talk & trial frayheld
scope in biopolitic
– take intentions filing body through doors
becomes the day we see these creatures
mediating what of ourselves we bring back to each other
,, how we’ve been & weathered
the depth of the wrecking of our lives
this whole quiet at
water lines we relearned to sing / sense
re/appropriate drawn nearnesss &
bubbling suns
ripple scarce so slight
the skills we honed bear bodies
each other across difference –
proximities scuff by flow / fearstate
embedding further walls
& the already disappeared / torn floors
massified disposable
threaded by the fork in the bars
de/sol/ace
the power our selves place
in the everyday, what will
continue to survive us together
timbre lain scopes loss
out toward assembly,
relearning words & chants
& the matter of us
languages
, motion
of arms,
joints, bones, hold what grief / feelings
break to magnetise,
by the violence further wished for us,
its torrid hands wrung,
these bonds abstracted
kept to instigate
,
stranger, trust takes forms atoned
, meeting where a waterline
sibling, how do you name yourself
after Diane di Prima, 15.4.21
