Some Intimacy, a Mediation - (2022)
translucent permanence lays within,
comfortably seeping out from pours flesh
comfortably seeping in through this depleted ground
comfortably seeping out from within as this body concaves folds in and out of itself, compressed and decompressed.
translucent permanence lays within,
comfortably seeping in through this depleted ground
comfortably seeping out through this depleted ground
comfortably seeping in through this depleted ground
comfortably seeping out through this depleted ground
translucent permanence lays within,
comfortably seeping in from within as this body concaves folds out and in of itself, compressed and decompressed.
I’ve been thinking about composting, imagining what it means for this body to compost, to sink back into the ground, to nourish what is beneath, to unravel and unbecome, the unbecoming of Terra Nullius to the becoming of rich Black Terra.
Is this composting a means of Presencing?, feeling or indeed being one with the ground which surrounds me, by moving beyond and within a body, this body, this Black and Brown and white body, this Nigerian body, this Beninese body, this Togoles body, this Camerooian body, this Congolese body, this Western Bantu Body, this Northern Indian body, this Ivorian body, this Ghanaian body, this South Indian body, this Malian body, this Sottish body, this Irish body, this English body, this French body, this Welsh body, this Germanic body, this Northwestern European body, this Afro Caribbean body, this South Central Afro Jamaican body, this Black British Body, this/these gendered and ungendered body/bodies, this body - these bodies, this body – these bodies without-ease wrapped in multitudes of colonial pollutants and violence.
Is composting a means of Presencing? to move within a body/bodies held by questioned presence? As I imagine this body concaving, spreading moving with other beings, how do the histories which formed this body/bodies dissipate, into the ground.
nourishing
nourishing
concavesandfolds,
flesh pressed into/onto flesh,
flesh entangled in flesh,
flesh dissipates into flesh, nourishing this landscape through positions of stress
this flesh lingers
through,
it is in a stress position, flesh pressed into/onto flesh,
the body is always in a stress position
everything is a position of stress
compressed and decompressed, detangled with earth, the curve of flesh, this flesh in a position of stress
flesh lying in a position of stress, nestled on, against, in-between
flesh lying in a position of stress, nestled on, against in-between, joining entwined with old life new life decay, this body seeps and pools delivering itself
some intimacy.