The Seated Woman

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Publication Year:
2025

ISBN-13: 9781487013301

<p><em>THE POEMS<br>

You fell asleep on the tiles<br>

a translucent peacock loomed<br>

your sex opened and let out<br>

a very blue, very high flame.</em></p>

<p><em>You wore a split veil that morning.</em></p>

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<p><strong>With flexibility and invisible acrobatics, <em>The Seated Woman</em> presents, as in the theatre, a competitive dialogue between a woman and her poems.</strong> </p>

<p>Silent, nailed to her chair, the seated woman writes. She cracks. The poems fidget, slip their fingers: they seek to enter. Perched on her shoulder, the poems whisper in her ear. She captures their messages: “I love the sacred contortions you offer me.” The poems protest: “You're squeezing us too hard: be careful, toy.”</p>

<p>More than descriptors, the words behave as commands or moves in a game—and the voice of the seated woman rises to play.</p>