 What I needed was to sleep and sleep and sleep to let go release the construct that has so ill suited me in the past drift in the waters of my unconscious soup become a salamander prehistory precognitive prehensile body Axolotl little dragon shaking off fire and breathing water mastering regeneration transparent skin inside out transmission of a touch to a thought to a feeling that is bigger than the known universe we are ganglia nerve networks that light up as information passes through us we are conduits beacon fires lighting the mountain peaks with our flames each sparked by the torch of another we are immeasurable megawatts of cosmic energy contained momentarily in membranes of glorious human skin when we touch the mere suggestion of what we can be could light a city with electricity buzzing with live wires and dangerous music we are nothing we are everything an electron in an atom so infinitesimal and omnipotent we could disappear at any moment or split into unfathomable power. |
Gilly Ann Hanner is a writer and musician based in Portland, Oregon. She is mother to two daughters, and is part of various musical projects including
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