My NEIU HYBRID-FORMS class, in conjunction with our study of @carrielorig THE BLOOD BARN generated

REPERCUSSION TEXT(URES) THAT SIT BEHIND THE WORLD.

We did this, obvi, over zoomspace, so, for me, that was on our little enclosed back porch, yellow walls, a small storm arriving

, the sounds from the alley behind our place; then my students' faces/screens lined up in front of me, sometimes just a voice, we mentioned carving away & shaping & doing so in the brutality of gender & shadows cast what it feels like & convention and expectation & decoding &

commas in the right places, continuity, threads & blotted out & leakage & blossoms

REPERCUSSION TEXT(URE)S THAT SIT BEHIND THE WORLD

Some of the students will be emailing me their results, and our research/our repercussions will appear here (some anonymous and some not):

Here is ZAHRA SAJWANI:

a thread embossed within the spine holding each piece of papyrus to be whole. a waft of peppermint dances through the air. a catastrophe. she loathes her creation and then cradles it as though it will speak to her / from the ashes, with red hair, eating men like air of course.

how nice would it be to be stitched up by thread. to control when your being becomes untidy and to mold it to perfection like it once was. flabbergasted. bronze mirror + bloody towels = a woman whose life was centered around her craft. the doctor declared her a perfectionist.

unfortunately, there is no cure but to suffer endlessly. chaos is an exquisite word you know. it rolls of the tongue effortlessly. chaos.

from me:

fly caught in a light fixture + screaming=a whole era of remembering a childhood by observing a childhood/all three of us scared of living in this time/she is living in this time/a whole era

more TK

Here is CATHY COLTON:

What is poetry? What is philosophy?

The scent of deep brown leather trapped in a maple drawer + yawns = graffiti art

The power dynamics implode/A child's face is splattered with
metaphoric shit/Horrified vampires creep out/rising from the excrement

Howling at the electric street lamps

The Fathers are fucked.

Here is KARINA SANCHEZ

Here is MARVINA SIMS

Here is HAILEY JURASEK

collaborative | fragmented
dirty fingers | dirty fingers + broken toe=
trapped | I let someone awful pretend to love me.

it went to hell/like the best phoenix I could manage.
| Still, I hate how mesmerized I am by the fire and the burns.