https://expansions.life Expansions Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:07:33 +0000 https://expansions.life en https://expansions.life/38-let-it-centrifuge Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:07:33 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/38-let-it-centrifuge ︎ 38 / let it centrifuge "You have to follow it,"she said, almost to herself."Flowing currents don’t wait.They spin, they fold,they carry you pastthe things you thought you knew.Even the windows know this,wooden frames sailing,moving regardless."I stopped walking,but she kept going,gesturing faintly,as if to draw the shapesof the things she couldn’t say."Let it centrifuge," she murmured,"spin into itself.You can’t fight the flow."And as she faded into the distance,I stood still,the thin wind curling around me,wondering if I’d evercatch up. https://expansions.life/37-defibrillator Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:54:49 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/37-defibrillator ︎ 37 / defibrillator in this quiet, a fluttering, something like an impulse but softer, hazier a sense of shape in the distance just beyond where sight dissolves we reach for it, carefully at first not wanting to break the spell of almost the air itself holding its breath; we find ourselves indeterminate, taut there is a strange eloquence to flailing some fragile note held just out of tune as limbs twist and grasp at nothing a child feeling the weight of skin https://expansions.life/36-fragments Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:54:53 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/36-fragments ︎ 36 / fragments and the few shards of glass that remain in my frame still shimmer with your hues my gaze causes colours to blind https://expansions.life/35-you-are-not-here Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:46:31 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/35-you-are-not-here ︎ 35 / You are not here oceans are here being pulled in close by a swollen sky to feel its weight descend from the clouds redrawing the familiar in rippling and decidedly unrecognisable vibrations https://expansions.life/34-I-Am-Now-a-Hive-of-Wings Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:49:53 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/34-I-Am-Now-a-Hive-of-Wings ︎ 34 / stutter I am now a hive of wings that makes the senses flicker and flicker until finally the quickening resonance accents the brain with a tint I am now a hive of wings https://expansions.life/33-drifting Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:39:43 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/33-drifting ︎ 33 / drifting hands drift toward the unfurling valence of mouths salivating purple with the last of the shadows on the earth set between the far hills [adjacent reverberation intensifies] https://expansions.life/32-glances Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:03:42 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/32-glances ︎ 32 / glances When I happen to meet anyone I want to lie down so that we are entwined together https://expansions.life/31-a-season Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:50:52 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/31-a-season ︎ 31 / a season a season of cheap nectar for the thick-tongued and muddy mouths; who taste the sourness before the sweetness, who know how it feels to be crushed with delight; a staccato gazing of navels between the field-licking lovers of nettles https://expansions.life/30-entropy Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:58:24 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/30-entropy ︎ 30 / entropy Entropy saw nothing come before anything and wondered why she was here with everything Entropy decided she did not want https://expansions.life/29-Light-took-a-breath Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:25:02 +0000 Expansions https://expansions.life/29-Light-took-a-breath ︎ 29 / Light took a breath "You have been so good. You have been so brave, so strong" it says, gently, as it does every morning. As if this is a new thing it can see. As if it is a new project. As if the baby has not already been sitting there for thousands of mornings watching their life pass by. It smiles, it feeds, it changes, it says, "You have been so good".The baby knows this before the words are said, already drowsy with being old enough, already drowsy with being fed, already drowsy with being clean. A baby, you were told. While you were growingyou saw things others could not. You saw the way light spotted across your named hourglass. You saw the way all matter moved within and above you. Light took a breath and became aware.