the blueprints for this room [day 2]

Future Prince

 
Calling out to you after 
the mangled credits roll,  

embittered by extra hours of 
christmas delivery. Yet this

intact spine: proof: you held 
yourself as a redfaced lamp,

a knight of satin electronics. 
As our family wished you would. 

My girl, have a brandy. 
Let all the ammunition sink.

I’ll walk us through the city of animals. 
What hackles them in your time is just 

a tipping punchline in mine. I know now 
the bittersweet fact: our marrow 

makes new blood. Not all of us wake up.

It’s your skin. Recite your names 
to yourself again and decide: 

Kaninong puso nakataya.

Constructed from the words of Kimberly Alidio, Jai A.R., Pia C., and Ching-In Chen.

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Prompts

‘Because pleasure is stronger / than fear, and I am afraid of everything.’—Traci Brimhall

Kimberly:  Listen globally and focally. “The *creation* of silence is one of the greatest miracles of listening.”—William Osborne

Jai:  Something you love to eat at any time of day, with everything: soompi forums: Preserved Bamboo Shoots with Chili Oil

Pia:  “Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.” —Cherrie Moraga

Ching-In:  ”Here I am, walking towards the land of the poem. A visitor? A refugee? A citizen? A guest? I do not know.” - Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah

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Housekeeping

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