Tati El Mallah
Projects:
- Sammak
- Shivers
-
A Present
- Three Days Looking For The Color Red
- Study of No Control
- Standing Again On Fallen Ground
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Standing Again On Fallen Ground
Afterimage - the impression of a vivid image retained by the eye after stimulus has ceased
Afterlife - the impression of existence retained by the soul after life has ceased.
Rupture - the resolve to break through something once created.
Shifting plates under the foot,
sinking soil, and it is dark here. Too dark.
Still I close my eyes and fall back into the damp the wet and freezing,
coming out the otherside with goose skin in the frailer body of a younger self.
I am at the edge of the pool shivering as my mother tells me she’s a mermaid,
That my father found her on the shore of Andoni
Where the ocean thins out into the river.
This island is still shrinking by the day.
You can see her waning
You can feel it in the flesh and blood
When it becomes angry and slow
Like our own when we pass that point of growing
And begin
The steady fade