Judson Church 1963
implacable in a chair
she sits in the only way she knows how
completely
then much later
a turn
or rather a push
into a place she looked headed
the sound of a clap hits everyone
a door is opened and remains so
and now
she’s leaning forward
and is arched
towards the floor
her legs mark another space
she has moved
the whole body has moved
shunting the body in this manner is difficult to do
or even to think about doing
it is strange
that this should not be stranger than it is
the chair you sit is not made for this
as the day stretches into one hell of a long night
but you let go or don’t hold on
there is someone else too
another person is moving more lightly more quickly
and maybe more wrongly
is this a duet
or two solos
you can follow either or neither
he is all over the floor
covering and uncovering more
space revealing more area
though is perhaps but a marker
(holder) or something she is dreaming
perhaps it’s he dreaming her
or us them or they us
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and now
an hour or more later
her feet
have found the floor
she hunches forward and is out
of the picture
her legs are gone
her head gone
silhouettes
as if this could be an ending
