CONTACT:
Georgia Zinzan
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Everybody’s Dancing Upside Down
Spring up from out of the ground
As if a dawning apparition
Death becomes
The only reliable outcome
As softly my wet feet
Soak the hardened earth
And in my path grows
Dried flowers
With no chance of bloom
Rue the day I laid my body
Down to rest
And sent my mind
Wandering
For what it found
I will never be rid of
And tomorrow
I hope
Lightning strikes
My soaking form
And erases
All the memory
First Sighting
My vision was altered
As if I’d arrived from the dark
But it was light where I came from
And it was light where I was
And like a shadow
Her figure emerged
Small and delicate
Back lit by a fog that
Began to recede the moment
I laid my eyes on her
Suddenly
And
Ever so clearly
I could make out her details
Soft
And jagged
Fairy like
Her figure could only be described
In drawn comparisons
To my own
And though she was a stranger
She was the most familiar thing to me
Framed by succulents
Tall trees with rich bark
Littered ground
With shards of pine
No flowers
But the three she held in her hand
And I think she would have given them to me
Had she been able to tell who I was
But possessed by some force unseen to me
She wandered on
Watching as she left
I etched a figure of her departure
Into my memory
As to not forget
This time
For You
I Must Ask That You
Take it from my sweaty palms
Like a gift
I'd rather you opened once everyone had gone
All alone
So that you smile to yourself
And
Think of me
Thinking of you
And you will
Write me a letter
Just don’t say it to my face
That you love it
And
That maybe
You love me
And that upon closer inspection
You've noticed the details
And
You smirk at the flaws
That I've already mentioned in the accompanying card
And that they make you like it more
That they make you
Love it
More
And pick it up and use it
Maybe
You’ll even share it with me
Or let me hold it
Because it's different now
From when I gave it to you
Because its yours now
And it's no longer just from me
Now it's
For you.
The Echo Chamber
I was swallowed by the echo chamber
How big and expansive it was
And how much time it took
For the shock of yesterday to reverberate
And for my nervous system to quake
At the threat of losing the sweetness I had cultivated
And when I found the center of my echo chamber
I sat in the middle
Heavy upon the mossy floor
And my body gave a slight bounce
When it hit the ground
And I sat in it
And I waited
And I wondered
“Where has the echo gone?”
I could feel it brushing the cavernous walls
With bright red paint
Burning the cold stone
Turning the world around me a soft pink
And almost as if it was waiting for me to take a seat
Surrounded by flowers and
Shaded by willow trees
It came quickly
But not all at once
It came in bursts
Like firecrackers
Each time it sounded
I had to close my eyes
I could feel my core absorbing it
And I knew I could take it in
But it hurt
Like a sting I’d never felt before
And though I was sitting
I felt that it could almost carry me away
That it could steal what I had so triumphantly taken back
But it was just an echo
As quickly as it came
It just as quickly dissipated
And I sat there in the cavern
Anxious to make another sound
But feeling the soft tingle of the echo still inside me
I opened my eyes
When I felt it had receded
And as I looked to my left
A new flower had grown
And she had returned