‘when they cancelled your birthday i began packing for this expedition. 35 maps charted by i, given to you to celebrate you’s life (well specifically its impact on i’s). it was meant to be an act of love but everything is harder to recognize under a DIY bandit mask. when they cancelled your birthday they made it taboo so i secretly, and maybe a little bit selfishly, enacted it every day for 8 weeks in the pandemic spring of two thousand and twenty. ‘
In my most formally ambitious leap yet, comes a book of poetry masquerading as a performance text that is actually a birthday card claiming to be a map to a distant galaxy no one has heard of called alphatahédron. Spanning 2000 years, this puzzle-box work follows the friendship between you and i as it unfolds across lifetimes, historical plagues, esoteric literary works, star charts, and Zoom. Written in the pandemic spring of 2020 this 85 page birthday card reinvents the terrains in which we might meet eachother in a world that can no longer gather.
when we close our eyes
& twilight breaks
across our hearts
we hope someone
will tell us the story
of our lives
someone will know
where it started
how it ends
& why i wake up
every now and again
thinking this story
is the one free miracle
i asked for
on the promise
that someday i
would explain
the rest.