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what i remember from responding to CROSSINGS by Carol Brown, Amaara Raheem, and Shinjita Roy.
2020.07.22

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  1. i remember being taken by the thought, the felt sense the kind of breathing i can (re)call today as the embriological breathing, a breathing not-entirely-independent from the inhale and the exhale, not-entirely-independent from air. in the steram of felt-memory, i brush against a contemporary experience of cellular breathing, but contine backwards and forwards to embriological breathing, re-focusing now on the time before i took my first breath, the time my breathing as lived experience came through the exchange of fluid between my mother's body and my own. and so, i realise, this is important: i remember when my mother had the experience of breathing air and i did not, that's the breathing i remember. that's the breathing i want to speak.


  2. i remember seeing in the unfolding blanket the AIDS Memorial Quilt.


  3. i remember poetry defined as giving time to words, how much time? time enough for words to bloom; as if words were plants and time rainwater. i remember poetry defined as what makes it possible for the less superficial meanings of words to emerge, come to experience, become felt sense. i remember (not saying that) poetry is a strategy i use to stand in the way of assumption.

    (assumption, compared to the temporal and lived experience of poetry, is words without time, words of another time. where poetry blooms words in waters of time, assumption uses words like knives then hides them after making the cut which is why a victim of assumption might "not know what hit them.")


  4. i remember the "social dreaming matrix."


  5. i remember the "makes us vulnerable, knowledgeable, rare."


  6. i remember the "general state of breathlessness."

 


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