Skeletal Phrases
The body through the external
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Pelvis as bowl,
Ribcage along spine
Crown of shoulder girdle.
Portrait of Charles William Lambton (‘The Red Boy’) (1825) Sir Thomas Lawrence, detail
Rises above clavicle, into the neck.
Two columns, fine webbing.
Linen workwear dress
Absent left kidney,
Butterfly back of eye sockets,
Body, container,
Speak from the stomach.
A dream is a slow act
Spaces of memory and memories of body.
Celia Paul, Ghost of a Girl with an Egg, 2022
All Saints and St Andrew Church, Kingston
Liquid systems
Eyelashes scatter,
Thrown into physical space.
Nice putty, greenish-grey
Take parts of my eye and look after them (the red)
Artery Man, Vein Man
The ear and The air,
Any sounds, including memory.
Lace map in Bruges
Replicating thunder,
Compression
Expansion
Lumbar vertebrate of cow.
Radius rolled over ulna
Rowan Briggs Smith, Skeletal Phrases in storage
Foreheads pressing against wood
with my hand pressed to my breastbone.
Rowan Briggs Smith, anatomical dress, in progress
Falling down off ribcage,
Circular breathing
to fly in silence.