Hear Our Voices 2022
Spiral dancing the fire’s pure display,
honoring the Sun’s ascending parade,
Then returned to the feast of Saints
where spirits were silt like loosened restraints,
and joviality faded the color from our shining faces,
As the shadows grew long from silent places,
except in Gebirah whose refrain
was quite forward and plain,
Whose judgment was absolute of a laughing shell,
who feigned an acute measure of faculty dismissed . . .
-Gebirah and the Reptile by Rosario Aurelius (read the full piece)
Freedom - By Zhuzh
Stillness in the sculpture garden. The Grasshopper Woman screams.
GRASSHOPPER WOMAN
There it is, the way out, away, but is it mine, is this my way, no, stop, the stillness creeping in again, my word, here I am, the tallness of the grasses, up, up, out to the sky, we are reaching, out, beyond, be with me, sweet summer air of memory, when all with ease, when, when, when the buzzing of the body in sunshine, the brightness, bounding, but why . .
Excerpt from Marzipan - By Henri Blouin; Performed by Kelsi Ford (see the full piece here)
Visible - By Mayumi
Blob - By Jess McIntosh
