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Naked

Wind rustling in the trees
Another womb
Another birth

Original creation
Submitting
To another

Hovering
Invisible
Moving

Upon my body
And inside
Spirit forming

Not to be seen
Not to be touched
Until the first cry

Carries
Across
The waters

Birth
Born
Naked

The wind
Rustling
In the trees

Loss
Love
Wings




 


Extracts

Exposure

 

 

 

 

I carried the weather
of my childhood within me
and all that was needed

jumpers for a cold night
waterproofs for the rain
swimsuits for the sun

 

 

 

ruin

 

 

 

 

I always imagined ruins' touch to be harsh
but it was like a hand on my shoulder
gently pushing me down
I always imangined the ground to be cold
but it was to envelop me like a mother
surrounded by unquestionable arms
I was down
I was part of the earth

Gesamtkunstwerk
(complete work of art)

 

The Lord began and completed a work in me which my hands and my heart grasped, leaned upon.

A building constructed from the inside within a spirit cavity, and while gravity pushed me down, something rises.

My hands and my heart were grasped, He leaned upon me and turned me inside out.

 

 


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weighted

I spoke to you
I bacame many words
so you would understand me
I spoke about you
I spoke for you
this was my side
speaking
Love
Gave
Belief
Life

and in doing so
I became weighted down




The Way

The night has come
But it is nothing to darkness in my heart
Like wax, it is as if melted
within me

I walked dusty streets and shared the burdens of men
And now my feet will not move
My bones, as if all out of joint
Who will take me home...
And as my hands are stretched about me
Who will lead me on...
Poured out, as if like water
I descend
Not as a man, as if a worm
And now as my Father turns
I am torn





Trinity

Great Word please sound in me now
If there is a word then there must be a voice
And if there is a voice there must be a thought
And a thought must have the womb of a mind
to conceive and protect
Great Word please
I am dying for sense



Designed by
Red C

...do not seek to rescue us - for these chains they are mortal - and that which is mortal always dies...
S.C. Fordham
Poet
+44 (0)20 7639 8900
admin@scfordham.com

 
Stills from a performance piece by Sandra Harnisch-Lacey, incorporating the poem Mortal Chains