.
above, a smoke thick blown
on a pitch black wall
slow-moving
.
you, kneeling
gather bones and nails
melting them into
evererupting stems
*
like a flower leans towards the light
I leak and lay bare at your feet
.
like a spark seen on abrupt
collision of our spit
or heard between the rubbed
together against
porous metallic sticks
your sharp
glances
my tender
grip
.
one rather use on me
a spoon or a spade
headstood, insides fluid and scattered
one rather use on me
a mouth digger
*
is that what a body looks like
helpless
nude of its skin
a ripeness sincere
awaiting
its rattler
.
mutilated, my I
still can see
that what a body
looks like me
.
and like a flower leans towards the light
I leak and lay bare at your feet
*
Marie-Pascale Hardy is an artist whose practice extends across poetry, performance, vocal and visual art. Born 1985 in Quebec, Canada, she studied fine arts and design at Université Laval. She lived in London for nearly a decade where she turned to music and writing. Now based in Berlin. Her words have appeared in Poetry London, SAND, FU Review, stadtsprachen, The Delinquent. She is the vocalist and lyricist of the duo Paco Sala. Their third studio album ‘Our Love Is The Gold’, “a weirdly warped scattering of skewed synth lines and eerie vocal cuts that makes for the most unique of journeys” (Gold Flake Paint), was released earlier this year on Denovali Records.
Photograph of a performance by Leif Holmstrand.
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