Te Hā Te Kā.
Circling connections of breath and fire
Hā - breath, essence, taste, breathing, sound, tone of voice.
Kā — to burn, glow, be alight, burning, ablaze.
You are a many-fangled earthly one.
Your appendages whip up the island’s black sand.
You lope through the dry bush with time past time present time future. You are running towards the queer and ineffable,
Towards a world-ing that acknowledges the fleshly life of all things.
Your eye invites burrowing. It is holey and full of caverns, like a loaf of sprung bread. An other is dancing in the crust of your iris, and everything is leavened with music.
The cloth rips. The air pullulates with stuffing. Small promises amidst the island’s parched earth. The body is an island, but the island is also a body.
By Collaborator Amit Noy
