photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions, All Rights Reserved

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions

The horse dies, lifts its leg, its breastbone gripped by body suspended in space.  One perceives the horse is dead, limp.  One perceives the horse reborn when it works up to a rise. One does not perceive another horse dead in the space. One horse wears partial clothing.

The horse is resuscitated through a series of gestures, fingertips at odds. Filaments of shoulder muscle slap the dead horse breathing.  Nothing is gripped so tight as the breath; so long the horse is on the ground the horse is dying.  One perceives the horse because it dies more slowly than the world.

Or, one perceives the horse gravity.  If one is alive, one is four feet on the ground, heels lifted.  If one is half-alive, one is limp, suspended in space.  If one is dying, one writhes, writhing often referred to as spiraling out.  Dead, the horse creeps up behind the living, falls.

But one does not fall upon dying. Half-alive, the horse lifts its eyes extend its fingers finger out extend to hold out a bouquet of roses. Half-alive the horse’s fingers branch outward like claws.

Or, the horse is half-alive, back folded, hands behind the head in prayer.  One perceives the horse’s hands are folded prayer because the horse is already dying, this half-alive horse, and its dying causes a string of pearls across its mane.  A pearl is signifier, half-dead horse, signal of something.  Half-dead horse alive to say the horse is living.  One perceives the half-horse half-alive, choking itself as to say.

Or, one perceives the horse as limp.  Hunched over, a string of pearls tangle the mane the horse gallops. In place rubbing breath on its body, hoof in one clean wide line. The other hoof is resisting weeping.  O string of pearls, O half-horse, limp dead with air then come alive.  O half-dead horse dance with nothing, kneel on the floor with two knees.  O do your hooves take on the form of hands?

papered on the wall

Bill while Eva is working

papered on the wall

Music past partition

Eva working on the wall

Anna says the Project

Eva working on the wall

Claire types on the table

Eva working on the wall

Call me on the line

adjusting paper on the wall

Bill with push pins

Eva  working on the wall

Anna says the Project

Eva pushes on the wall

Eva while she is working

papered on the wall

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions

If the only entry point is animal.

If the only entry point is animal is dog on the ground is harpoon.

If the only entry point is animal is dog on the ground is harpoon then this is dead narwhal then these are two grips.

Then these are two fists are maracas.

This is a wide-open sound, held as to knot.

And this is the regal gorilla performing its solo, a series of figure eight gestures with one grand finale.

coming back

…………………..from Atlantic City

where I lost a bundle

have

not

mastered

photo: © 2009 Jason Riker, Riker Productions

the train

cannot be here

without

You know

your body

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Intimacies in the Port Authority