"Transatlantic" & "Proximal I, II, III, IV, V" © Caroline Monnet, 2018. Installation view.
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the middle ground
for caroline monnet
uncertain violence traverses an ancient route, brutalities hidden while we are taught the wisdom of human commerce and capitalism. we are cogs, a whole made of parts standing in shadows of inference abstraction. bound by spaces, where spheres move a womb into a double moon sphering a path that winds itself around and across our tombs. creatures of dada, the Atlantic Ocean is raw the Atlantic Ocean is heavy the Atlantic Ocean is a wild passage between three territories. children of data, the Atlantic Ocean is raw the Atlantic Ocean is heavy the Atlantic Ocean is a wild passage full of dead bodies. This poem first appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic Issue No. 14.
It was republished in ECR's second chapbook, snap, pop, performance, now available via Gap Riot Press. "the middle ground" is written in a poetic style reminiscent of Shazia Hafiz Ramji's port of being (Invisible Publishing, 2018). It is part of a working collection of ekphrasis, and is inspired by the work of Anishinaabe/French contemporary multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet. |
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rain brings the angler fish
east winds rattle panes
brittled by brackish salts typhoon rage-mists at youth's passing. i gnaw on my cache of traumas lick like heat swallows, skin chanting to myself, this is this is this is this is the outside battering in. The Fiddlehead No. 285 - Autumn 2020
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