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EVENT VITAL STATS
3 HOURS - 30+ POEMS
DATE: APRIL 4TH 2019

LOCATION: WADSWORTH ATHENEUM
THE INFAMOUS AVERY COURT, SITE OF PAPER BALL
MAIN MUSE: VENUS, THE GHOSTS OF THE WADSWORTH (namely Chick and Lois)

THE POETRY CARDS // ARTISTIC LICENSE GIVEAWAY CARD
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• SELECTED POEMS from the event (essentially unedited) •
1.

tick
tick
tick
she came to me in the night and
poured into me her pride.
when i woke i was starving,
ready to eat for all the lifetimes i had
already lived - to take up some caloric intake
for lives i had yet to even think of living.
when the first robin of the day saw her
she jutted, ran to sides and felt for the
security of a felled tree, of a limb lost
to lightning.
i followed suit.
folded up into the felled tree
below my bed and waited until the hunger
left me for the robin's worm, wriggling and
ready to duplicate when severed.
3.

feeling or you,
my hands are opening and
closing but there doesn't seem
to be anything there to find,
anything there to get a hold of.
but i keep trying.
i keep reaching,
keep feeling into the silence
of the moment, in hopes of finding
the crack in the timeline that lets me
grab you, lets me feel you feel to you
again. as much as i grab, though,
for each time i reach out,
i make a pact -- to stop knowing the
way it feels to touch something solid
at all, to readjust that staid
perspective and understand that
shape and form
are for me to decide, for me to feel -
for me to decide.
2.

when i stepped into you i had
waited to find a moment in which you
might not notice, but it became clear that
you were twitching with awareness, and as a result i decided to just go for it.
it was dark, and while there were
vibrations that i had known before
there were so many ways in which i was
surprised to see you were actually quite
different, after all.
you were sort of sticky,
in the way the night can adhere itself
to a surface so that the light can be seen and you can know, again, that the opposites still exist.
when i hit the cord that resonated
through me, though, i knew that it was
time for me to go, and so i stepped out of
you and watched you as i had before.
4.

when crowley issued the edict
i heard it from the wings of my
ethereal waiting room, and i set myself
to becoming ready to rejoin the ranks
yet again. it was the way he said it,
the way the law lent itself to him
so unceasingly that a clarity that
had been navigating for ages found
itself ready to bask itself in its readiness.
each day, now, i honor this choice i
made, allowing my will to guide me
back again and again to the ease
with which the love may be increased
and the bonds that break and tie us
are forged through the
ease of a smile
of a reminder of the beauty that
sits within you,
that love is the law,
and to fight for it is the only
choice i ever chose
to give myself.

(PROMPT: "i'd like a poem about this
::points to my business card::. love warrior.")

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