Packaging
What happens
when you peel away the celophane
from your
airtravelled roses and smell
nothing?
What happens when the confident laughing girl you met last night
wakes up beside you smudged, barefaced and vulnerable?
What happens when we take children
out of their uniforms
and see individuals instead of
data?
What would happen if we opened the coffins
and let the sweet smell of
the insipient rotting of beloved flesh
awaken us to
remembering
what matters as we live?
Artful policies,
shrink-wrapping complexity
into bite sized breakfast bars
to be eaten on the run
as we run on empty.
Packaged in our warm homes,
enchanted by the spell of screens,
eating plastic food,
blandly
similarly
regularly.
Tear it all away.
Tear off the shrink wrapped,
suffocation
and plunge your hands into deep dark earth,
throw your head back to let the sharp night air run its knives across your frail and mortal skin.
Howl at the burning forests
the melting ice
the famine
the drought
allow yourself to feel the terror
of what we face.
Slaver
stalk
sniff
lick
your way to wilderness,
to your own
atrophying species
and
use your
claws,
your jaws,
your guts,
to
tear away the plastic
to the flesh
of life beneath.
(Photo: Wendy Corniquet)
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Thanks for being here.
Julie
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