Monday, August 12, 2024

Watching your killer on vimeo / Elegy 13

 

Watching Your Killer on Vimeo


I watch her inter-

View on tape: VA

She says / is

The space between

Us / living and dead

It comes from

The land / care

Taken of graves

And between us

“VA is everywhere”

Albert Wendt

Writes / after I

Published a book

Whose title offended

You / I visited his

Office (Kuykendall 511)

Asked him what

To do / given the word

That begins with “c”

In English / the author

Also American

Hadn't known

And while Wendt

Understood your concern

Said cultures change

They're remade

By us / as he had done /

Reflected through the lens

She says on Vimeo

Of her perception

Drawn to taboo

Tattoos like those

On her hands

Those who act

I can imagine

Rewind that image

Back to her theater

Back to her

Teaching / back to

Her her her her her her

Ten minutes up

Return a stranger

And more than

Strange that you

Can’t hear my

Words / bent screen

On wood house

God is ugly

Elizabeth writes / so

We won’t identify

With him / we

Who are beautiful

As her words

Were until time

Ends / we tend

Your memory grave

Ashes to ashes

Word upon word

Upon word upon

Unmortared rock

 

 

with thanks to Elizabeth Robinson

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