To reach but not to reach back over email and
text messages or computer screens.
To be complicit in the intricacies
of intimacy and to reach through connection but cellular or systems
of 0 and 1 or systems of weather
and when it stops raining I’ll come visit.
If I reach like
this will you take it?
War and by that too much too many not just because we are here
and in this country or you me we are here and in this country
complicit yet resisting it or trying to.
Are you?
Blue couch with orange pillows hung at the edges and green afghan
tucked under under.
But without physical body and location and
time and aware of position on the globe or trying to be aware
of it and globally
not generally.
She said this is conceptual and craft-based and
we will make art objects and structures.
Yarn or onion dyed
cotton string or tape or scissors or staples and grommets or
eyelets depending on the medium or index
of the measure.
One and then more than one so we reach to keep observing.
Beyond
the window that keeps out rain but looking at the rain and
thinking not just rain but a collection of systems and
many winds pressures temperatures and waters.
The voice caught
in a voicemail inbox and trapped there as if time and place
were not to be considered.
When he said darling he said it like
it meant something or like he meant it.
Darling as if it could.
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