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I'm here, watching over you, a frame of light... that down-going, that roundness of sliding, d... I love you, yes. But I do not want to lose my... your world, a theatre set for other planets... clotted flesh - isn't this where you thought ... but when you jump, grab gravity from the hair... where do all these things come from? he was c... scratch away the name of your mother. Kick do... slide your hand in your mouth. deeper. stop w... You woke up in the middle of the night, and s... what of the sea fits in a mind of folds? If b... mattress on the floor, ocean sheet, double br... small tendernesses fluttering around a paper ... Nothing not to, never without, not other time... that was a long poem. it took a dog eighteen ... beauty because we are not otherwise, we could... of a morning without end, where youth is pour... she pulled a thread from the earth's slumber ... life as a theatre set. the perfection of no o... clamouring big vowels, perfectly rounded Ps a... one will take you far into the deep future; t... you make it sound as if it were a simple thin... the day, or days, years, those that passed wh... #anneimhof #biennaledivenezia #germanpavilion... here it is, the framed fear, fiercely riding ... the city in a box, with water and glass, wind... offering a space, or was it just a body? for ... fire that warms through centuries of waiting,... every two years, the cloud becomes lake and t... this blue, that shifts aeons of toil and air,... one more, he thought. Just one more and then ... sitting quietly under an embrace, supple as t... waiting. not patiently, not always calmly. so... we, he said, who lead a pedestrian life, we, ... fragility of skin, tenderness of enclosure, v... a gift, for us to us. wrapped in light, sprin... it was a day like all others when a space ope... il n'y a pas de youkali #soundunbound #angelb... perhaps you were not there when the other sea... of the sounds you made, one reached me, dream... swathes of care softly swimming in your under... I could jump over, if I wanted to, he thought... a window, or was it just an opening, and the ... that you will never resist. that you lie flat... how come it works, he wondered. Other bodies,... Beneath us only void. Keep that free, he thou... With that lift, I marry thee, depth of greens... the world's drama has always been yours to we... you are already immersed. don't you see, your... I walked along the line, away from the edge o... take with you handfuls of water, each drop a ... we, extensions of plastic, suffusions of wire... Is this one of those evenings? They are rare,... pose, holding yourself in your hand, facing y... what of the midday moon, that makes our pages... our days are structures from other planets: c... If anyone is in London on Saturday, pop in at... a Venetian aquarium, perilously floating on t... and if you were anything, you would have been... a quick forever, he thought. A small drop of ... it was an evening without night, vast as life... they were others to others, always under eras... you looked into the moment, just when i froze... a lisp, ever so light, a whispering tilt of a... door left ajar, an invitation to a gathering ... divinity without a great diver: small worlds ... and your island, in the middle of the lake, i... and you wake up with the taste of deodorant; ... to disappear means: to be remembered in techn... and the water became symbol and the symbols r... and the jungle will burst out from within the... and they started navigating the space between... after new, after tomorrow, even after other: ... a quiet passage (can you hear the rustling of... and when the cold became light, and the wind ... this city, just as the whole world, just as y... this world, is all interior.... and while you slept that early evening sleep ... and the time you spent putting yourself toget... and that island of darkness you brought up fr... and bodies blanched from the midnight suns an... and you, whose agony of wings flutters awkwar... and while you were counting the suns that wer... and your flesh, balmed with the cream of a th... and this hour, blue of blood, soft like your ... and mothers that give birth to eternity, laid... and some thought they were gods.... and you thought that your body belonged to yo... choosing the one day //without night// when y... of that moment, there was no outside. All con... lashes of a pleasure forgotten in some other ... I am brought slowly near // undercurrent brea... in this pool of wishes where your hands will ... the harder you stare, the higher it goes. mel... see. what you never see. see on a lake your ... taste.... smell.... touch.... listen.... if on the way, your skin grows feathers and y... a crowned moment - what would you give to be ... thick velvet time of late dreams, the curtain... this world turns its back to the world . to b... metal air, soft thorns, touch me. poison balm... This little opening. This short evening. This... drained, she thought. my name has no more vow... your thoughts a continent floating between us... without an inch of space between us, we moved... a slide a hide a skin opening up, finally a d... every evening, when the city curled inside an... if you comb me gently, my hair will spread wa... he could only understand space. empty or fill... so, if I carry on smiling, will these phallus... was it yesterday, sitting by the last wave, p... snowflakes become chandeliers become souls. n... yes, little darling. your brittle life, inter... the smell of the dying flowers obliterated th... a night bridge. rain air. sliding bodies, col... to live as if the eye of the world is on you;... she was dancing behind him, air aflutter memo... of your air, there is no molecule. it all bec... to read together, not from the same page, lin... "the first day. always first, always... collecting clouds... that afternoon, his horizon turned vertical. ... piles of earth and desire, each void filled, ... This love does not carry your name. It looks ... a rupture, yet, that breath without wind, tha... and without your face, how will the world app... Your pearls spread on the floor, your hand st... Take me to that other hell, where mirrors are... take me to this different heaven where birds ... but for the life we spent apart, we have alwa... Viscous slowness, no room for breath. This wa... a gallop that mourns the evening. haste and c... Here, where we deposited our present at the f... It would feed me rose-scented Turkish delight... I waited. Life always appeared elsewhere befo... This sadness is my own, she wrote. It comes f... I found you folded in my future. You smelled ... your wound, deep as thought, accompanied me a... there was a Sunday centuries ago, when you lo... but without you, there has been a light that ... a voice, not yours or any other's, carved on ... his smile broke up in a thousand softly lit g... the other side of departing - remember? when ... summer of violence, instance of isolation.... when this ends, another room begins, dipped i... I can see an opening, he thought. Maybe this ... without steps but with wings. without voice b... And when your trip ends in the middle of the ... these crystals flew in from the window. they ... we stood on the edge of the world, kissing ea... Those mornings were good. No decision needed.... I will be what you need me to be. An umbrella... this, he thought, could be eternity. to look ... your finger burns, gushing throats with no br... the world's melancholy. tomorrow's regret. he... your hands rain upon me, forceful tenderness ... every morning she would sweep. she'd start fr... chop me up. there are others coming this way.... a force of invitation. you are now in, parasi... liquid never, airy nowhere, our digitalisatio... come in. this gate is for you. I've opened it... every afternoon, my inhumanity tickles my thi... hold my object like a planet rests on a god's... she kept on digging, nails and teeth screechi... we would ride that cement carpet flying high ... what of that sky that knew only collapse? you... our hands reach out, conductors of an earthly... Where were your jungles and where your skies?... if I could sit still and listen to the centur... and just like that, we turned others, grew ou... for ever there; but now other. red dressing-g... and if you closed all around me, metal and ai... He felt invited. He put his head in, nose fir... she turned, hiding light and shadow with her ... Our submersion - remember? when we were marve... we never felt trapped. even at the most frant... our thought, enlaced bodies of penetration; o... our palms, tenderly turned towards our faces,... we lit the darkness with these pearls, fished... our faces, mirrors held against each other; t... we whirled, remember?, and the world whirled ... were our pearls to hang from our ceilings, ju... in our world, bodies are inscribed on words, ... the richness of our yesterday, rolled in one ... fjords sprouting out of our arms, clouds cavi... giant mammals swimming airborne, we finish ou... in the palm of our hand we fitted the flesh o... for space to run as the space of water: impas... we wear our fragility like feathered halos. w... actors and spectators, centre stage, we are a... here it was: an end without tunnel. dropping ... a brief cold moment slid between their bodies... Of a man there was no boundary. Of a siren hi... our lives meet over a line separating boats f... we always thought we were separate. when the ... we shelter ourselves from that moment. the bo... we peer through our darkness. we look for our... we keep our eyes shut till the darkness of ni... we throw ourselves into the nothing, hiding b... we've always believed in the fairytale, watch... we are all complicit with the guilt of the wo... we feel the walls for faces, we block faces w... we paint the windows with gods and the stairc... we float in history as if it were ours; we fo... we are our own geology, eating our bodies lay... we stood there numb, watching the flood of ho... we look for a way out; windows sprout up at o... we, unclouded lakes, keep still in order to r... we swallow history stone by stone, hoping to ... we, nailed on the wall, drowned in the blood ... we measure our lives, we forget to live them;... we flicker around in wonder, always trying to... we are moved by ourselves, brittle birds bala... we, the angels. we, the mortals. we whisper i... we still believe, despite our best interests,... we dress up to forget that our nudity is plas... we record our present in order to forget it... we always wake up in other worlds... I wrapped up my love, my fear, and my future ... I come close. I smell you. I lick your caviti... Where does it open for you, she asked me. I l... That child. He's looking out towards the gard... What of that moment, when the whole earth inc... For you, he said, all I will ever have. And w... I've waited for years for you. When I woke up... I learned to bathe in sadness. It was ok, I s... I am sorry, he said. This is the day of my di... To be held by you: I always fantasised that i... My life, he told me, is just a bunch of lines... She lighted five candles. One for the dream o... Finally, one day, your waters receded. You st... My afternoon of pleasure. You laid tea for us... My morning light, can you see it? Liquid rays... Slow, open moves. I'll get there. I'm not sur... You were besides me holding my hand. But ther... What did you say your name was? Is it just fo... This month began with a Sunday, he thought. I... While he was signing the contract for the hou... I never built a city. I started several times... I built my city in one night. Streets and bri... I built my city slowly. Stone after stone, on... Days like this, she felt alone. She couldn't ... He woke up with a tinge of melancholy. He dre... She was the perfect child. Mild mannered, con... I have this dream, he says, where I become a ... My dream, he said, is to swim. But not like n... My dream, he said, is to fly on the wings of ... Skin of the earth. Monochrome life. Horizonta... Above us only water.... The city opens its mouth, vast expanse of air... Plaster the end wall with a forest wallpaper.... Meet me in the middle. Where things pick up s... there is a without, without which the with is... She said, if I die. I didn't hear the rest. T... I cannot. The climb down was hard, the search... Between our hands, folded inside our intimacy... You never questioned your uniqueness. Nor did... And while you were talking, your dreams were ... Attention: this is the way out. Attention: yo... And of all your turns, this one I remember th... Your first flooding. Remember? Barely a few s... There was a door. And there was the world. If... Without you, the air would fill with shadows,... My absence fills the belly of the world. When... This is how I wanted my life. Constructed, fl... This is my face. I know it, I see it everyday... My life, she thought, split in two. Past and ... I dreamed I was awake, sitting at the edge of... When that air of god fell on you, and your li... Reach out and touch me. Your afternoon will m... What, he wondered, was the other meaning? He ... I am the gift that you forget, leaving it in ... Look up. Not where your strings should be, je... I am the accent on your word, the crest on yo... What was the colour of your departure? Dusk c... ...and if I were without you? would you stil... ...and if I become your frame? will you reco... ...and if I were your reflection? would you ... The power of prayer: the harder I prayed, the... I haven't been looking and you became other. ... What you are tasting in the afternoon breeze,... Which hand, he asked. The right one, I said. ... Tonight, one of those evenings. Where everyth... The explosions are silent. They can happen an... It always starts from a little corner. Usuall... Where the earth swims and the bodies fly. Tha... Your face, you're blinding me. Your breath, o... The sky has come down, in our shoulders, betw... My limits, gilded fortresses. Lines that excl... I heard your nails scratching the sky surface... Please understand me. When I say I cannot any... You had asked me so many times to come with y... Whenever you touch the world, you will be tou... But they are the same. They emerge from the s... How do you open to the morning, she asked. Ar... Thirty five rooms in your thirty five palaces... You need to prepare yourself for the monstrou... You have to be ready for the monstrous, he sa... Wrap me around you, mantel of flesh, metaphor... We met. On that line, separating dawn from du... Oh I looked and looked. I opened doors that s... This is the city of your birth. It turned ins... Lush liturgy. Don't blame anyone - wallow in ... The box you made for me - all light. The bord... All these times that I stepped across and did... I collected honeysuckle at dusk, when day and... I woke up with the sense of a question on my ... The fan of the afternoon opens up. Invitation... That one time, the fold between us and eterni... What? With what? For what? It's without pain ... I'm rushing down, flurry, feathers and foamy ... No I won't cut my nails. Not my beard. Even m... Was that a dream of a narrow escape? Was I fl... There, he said. Where I am now and where you ... Your door facing my window. I'm sorry that yo... And. The other side. Smile again: there's no ... At the dusk of your life, barely three evenin... I am skin. I am text. Flesh. Skin that doesn'... She stepped in his flesh as if she were about... My way out was my way in. Once in there, the ... Your time, a vast embrace cooing me into wait... In your ocean. There was an island, remember?... With this stone, I marry you, she said. You w... Ten, nine, I count breaths till you land befo... If I stretch I'll reach. You sit there every ... This moment can be held for ever. In your han... Behind this wall are the mountains. I know it... A trembling body, flesh without gravity, open... All aflutter, wingless rising, breaths of tho... Your silver breath no more than a whisper. It... One self says, but you've been kind. Other se... Across space, through time, you rise, double ... They will soon walk back in. There was a lull... Love me for the world that looks at us. Love ... This Sunday had no movement. I put it in a bo... The flesh of the fire - does it burn? I fed i... Sit next to me. No need to pray. Yeah you can... Let me talk to you about my fragility, she sa... This is my hour. Light horizontal, slow sun, ... It's the same thing, here or there, you just ... I had to turn the sky the other way and the e... You have felt this corner before. Remember wh... You're breaking up, she said. I didn't know w... Have you missed me? You know you can always l... I am a painter, she says. But my paintings ar... This line is real. It's separated us for thre... He tried to put his water with the lakes of t... And if you felt it once on your skin, it wasn... That, he said. That with you, everything is c... A place to think. A space to end all thinking... I want you different. I want you other. I sti... My construction is light. It takes me months ... Why would you want to live anywhere else, I a... I am breaking the days, one by one, looking b... I stand underneath. Can you smell the collaps... There was a place where I could stay still. I... In this city of closure, his wings sputtered ... I do not want to be remembered. I want to mov... The quiet evening of our ravaged youth. We st... We have arrived. One of those perfect trips, ... My fragility shatters the glass. To be fragil... It was a good evening. My skin blossomed, the... Inside outside. Sitting falling. Living aslee... We placed the Open between us. We held hands ... They said goodbye. And thank you. And see you... You were about to turn and look. I could see ... Your below, my above. I was born when you rai... The city of arches and the city of vaults. On... Open. Close. Listen. Block. (and the expanses... A home within a box. A box within the home. A... I could never walk away from the escape. I ne... This cancer, my love. That spreads in the spa... The archeology of my body, all splayed out fo... What if I woke up and you were no longer ther... This was the memory of our discontent.... Open flesh, breath of forever, touch that rem... You placed me on top of your bed. All night, ... What happened? I thought I was merely waiting... My skyline is better than yours. My colours a... Without you, I knew where I was going and whe... I've left everything behind. I'm naked in fro... It was the Sunday of future. We sat on the ea... Every part of me is poisonous. You see me and... I wake up. I stand up. I walk. I fall. I fear... Before you were born. Or just after you die. ... Evening vespers. Slow moving worlds spreading... Was there a particular smell? A mood? I don't... Crushing under the weight of its own gravity.... Where I start where you end I will never know... Caress my imperfections. Feel my dysfunctions... I invited her to stay in with me. I told her ... A whole life I was trying to fill it. I put b... Rain on me, fall on me, drag me down on the f... From this darkness emerges darkness. From thi... I was here before you. I whispered a secret i... The trees started rising from within, roots i... I stretch when you stretch but I'm not you. B... I touch through your skin. I am touched throu... I always get up slowly. Middle of the night, ... I wash my body as I'd wash the world. Slowly ... Picking up pieces of earth. Not all of them b... It was different then. I used to call him dow... Yes this is how things are here. There are ab... The glass of my youth. Fountains of breaths p... This is not the ocean. This is not the sky. T... And now, on the ocean floor, where the sand b... The distance between your night breath and my... He, of all people, felt a stirring within his... The body fails. The body falls. The body flay... And of the two she knew she could only do one... Lopsided my love, a dream that emerges from h... I hold the globe within the globe. It is warm... The light that surges from my body, always mi... All my parts. All my futures. All my withouts... One thousand lives of unwaiting. We gathered ... Softly, haste-free, morning-scented lives of ... You say, this is life. You say this is art! I... Stay behind the glass. Open your mouth and dr... Open. Violence. Jump out. Violence. Stay in. ... He was looking for them all night. He would h... He said, I am outside. But this outside is fu... He said, I am within. And this within is furt... Invite me to your vertebrae. Open up for me, ... He stands on the balcony and sends them acros... First thing I do when I wake up is open my wi... Wherever I touch you, I caress your little ru... The great beauty. Lock it up behind rails. Fr... This is me, she said. And this thing above me... I woke up because of a scream. Rites of autum... The road from within the earth and onto your ... I tried. And I couldn't follow you. I wasted ... Is this the wave that everyone is waiting? It... She climbed up the stairs one step a year. Th... You live. You fight. You try to sleep. You tr... I have never seen it arrive but I know it com... A seat of light. Not comfortable or cosy. The... Hold. Hold you. Hold me. Hold the world. Hold... I was lost. I was looking for walls and corri... From a very young age we learnt how to dive. ... Welcome, she said. Do you know why you're her... Me and me. We do not meet often. Except when ... I have laid the table with my pieces. Taste m... The city writhing with bodies. From the end o... If I touch your words, will you stay? I am af... I thought I was two. One likes to charm the w... Your embrace is what makes my earth round. A ... He woke up between two worlds. He looked up a... You write like a god, he said. Does a god wri... The cleavage of time between your thighs. I r... I am your mirror but not your reflection. I f... These cliffs are made for jumping. These prom... So I fell from the sky. So I landed on ground... My love, he said, come and listen to the sky.... History landed softly on my feet. I changed r... There is something different about you today,... I used to wonder, who is the one who has made... He had two choices. Stay in or walk out. He c... What would have happened if I didn't wait, fr... It didn't happen like this. The seamountains ... Here it comes. I can feel it rising from my s... I have this fear: that the world will end and... Without this, I was no one. I had no means of... What of the evening that sent its hello in th... I felt being held, softly but tightly. The wi... How long have I been burning? Slow and from t... I will sit in the corner. I will let time, sp... Our own rounded hell cycle. You want me to, I... Bring me to your lips. Let me rest there. For... Count my holes. One by one. A moment of passi... When I was little, I used to hide under the t... It used to happen naturally: I would simply t... All these walls. I built them to protect my e... Where am I going. Why am I going there. Who s... Don't be gentle. Rush in, use all your weapon... These are my bones. You can no longer build a... I touch in and my hand is out. I blow out and... Some things come earlier here, he told me. He... Liquid sky descending. My body, flattened by ... Who knew how to love me? The ones I loved had... That other coast. If only, I'm saved. My arms... She gathered the lakes, skirts of the globe w... I do not belong. I have been placed on the su... Touch. It hurts. I writhe. I recoil. But I st... My half moon, my shy star, my poisonous sun, ... Try to fit me in, he said. I know I am not wh... There has been so much of everything lately, ... I can still hear your footsteps on the wood. ... There were better days, he thought. In those ... Wherever I hide it, it will be pierced. I hav... I was expecting the rain. I had an umbrella w... Small bites of beauty, she thought. If only m... You will slide and you will fall and you will... Listen. They have stopped moving. It's all in... What's this got to do with lust, he wondered.... You remember? she asked. The beginning of the... That's what I must do, she thought. Cross the... Go where? At my feet the sky waiting to swall... Finally you. A different you, dirty and murky... You say, there are others. You say, you're no... There is only one. It breezes when I'm laid a... Dust to water to air. Three geologies of affe... For you I would swim in the sky. I would fill... My pearls spilled on the surface. I did not h... Nothing but this. The warmth of your body not... And if this were the last one, he wondered. W... I'm cutting myself up. A piece here a piece t... 'Would you walk with me even though I might n... Look at my face. History carved a little stor... They sat on the grass, drenched with sunshine... Follow me. I am a friend. I will lead you to ... How did the floor fill with ceiling? Where do... Without rushing. Without here and there. With... And if I dip you in the water? If I slide you... No, he said, you don't have to be in focus. N... I feel aware of my shortcomings. My short str... That light again. This time a corridor. I tri... There is that square. And there is the light.... I am landing softly, featherfree air lingerin... I am hiding because I am not what you think I... I have your hand. I have your cloud. I have y... Why are you sad? she asked. I've lost somethi... Did you say that it'd make no difference whic... He only wanted to stay quiet and still. He to... Did I swim? How did I arrive here? Why am I n... Life as a theatre set. I replaced moments wit... Eat me. I am 180 years old. I lived in the gu... She felt a presence pressing on her shoulders... Was there a moment you felt you couldn't carr... I am double. I have night for breakfast and f... Running vertically, splashing my becoming in ... He squatted on the floor and faced it: a vast... "Is this a lullaby or a well? Will i... August moment of return. They are waiting for... Arcadia. A room in the water, surrounded by r... She stopped abruptly. She knew something was ... My home my skeleton my tonight. I carry my ho... Let me slide my hand in it. I'm not sure what... Everything perfect. You set up the world like... From within, a crack. From inside, a rupture.... Fold your body and kiss your ankle. Then fold... I will wait for you in all my double splendou... Run. Jump. Fly. Stretch. Dive. Slide. Don't s... I was born in liquid. I grew up without. I am... Was there something you wanted me to do, he a... Bodies of matter, pulsating flesh fixed in fu... I am collecting the seasons. I am placing the... In the eastern part of the city, there is a s... She often felt the breath. Neither hot nor co... Follow me. I will never leave your hand. I wi... The body fails. Space folds and withers. Time... You've split me in particles. You clipped my ... Never been here. Yet that corner kept hauntin... Struck. Time on my face, space underneath my ... I had no way of knowing. So I asked you to co... You're standing before me. Your body maps the... She was born with a scream 'I don't want to b... The book was reading her words, whispers echo... That. Because you're perfect. Because my body... And now pray. Fall on your knees and kill you... We were surrounded by liquid lines - remember... I was born when the water vomited me. I was l... Where does your light come from? And where yo... Check out @poetry_addicts - not just because ... I close the door behind me. I am safe. I swit... You are turned towards the Open. You always l... Mum, why is the eye of the world leaking? It'... A country was created. People were given brea... The water is leaking from the sea and is slow... Stop measuring! Let the rulers drop. Let heig... The violence of the embrace. If I could, I wo... Your flesh grew rocks and rivers and trees. Y... Small deaths. I'm used to it. You've died so ... You choose your G and take it to the cashier.... Has it happened yet? Am I reliving my days, e... After 7am, death withdraws. I open the eyes o... Humanity writes her stories on my skin. I rea... She said, sorry to bother you, oh you're taki... You want me to drown. Without hate, without s... Your words, my words. Your breath, my breath.... Your words, my words. Your breath, my breath.... You think this is abstract? You think it's ju... Walk slowly, he said. You might make me run i... Shadow caresses my sky scraping eyebrow. I'm ... A crying orgasm. Not so different to a laughi... Ground on your face, spread like origin, stir... I would never harm you. I would slide in you,... She sat by the river and took out of her bag ... The world is flat. A flatness that folds onto... The source of joy. Lace and light, or rust an... The country opened her arms, flowers of perfu... And when you carried me and made me feel an a... From my mouth, an ocean is gushing forth. I t... The question in their minds. Not whether to j... Sit with me, I said. Next to me or there, it ... Are you shadow or flesh, he asked me. But why... She flew in riding on the last breath of the ... She captured my song into her arms. Gilded ar... So then I realised. Your hesitation, your stu... Raining non stop for the last few days. My sk... This was the continent of our discontent. Whe... I want to be exactly where you are. I want to... She told me she was an angel. Actually, no, s... I want to be dissected. Life is hiding in the... I want more, he said. I'll give you the world... Your armies will march on my field. I will op... Teach me to swim. I promise I will never use ... My hands pulled me to the floor. My knees gre... What does it mean to be open? I have waited f... I feel like jumping. Why do I think that your... I was born with an emptiness. I tried to fill... No, he thought. I'm not really here. I can to... ... Let it be dark. Picpoet's voices will be mute...
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