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Ella Schoefer-Wulf in Response to Donna de la Perrière

Just this: a memory / undiluted or without language / so it never became

Ella Schoefer-Wulf
                     Writing in proximity to Donna de la Perrière
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will you look at this watercolor!
           
     dilute me again. The actual occurrence
 may be vibrant
                                             
               the mountains the moments
               empty                      empty the
               vast emptiness terrorize
               me again
 
               the moments   the moment
 
knowing that elsewhere there is a vast emptiness
like colors: words run into each other
 
 
 
 
 
  
Distance is beautiful. Tell us about yourself (just this) I’ll assemble the words elsewhere
like ash-blond automatic ever meeting mineral basement like fixing one day I used
murdered and murdered a brief period small, dark & almost (but not quite) barefoot
 
 
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Just this: a memory
undiluted or without language
so it never became
 
association turns
windows to the view
tapping finger to the
pain and
a gaze towards
 
(just this just
this) the poem is not
a photograph but
an organism
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
a poem about the way things are which is an architecture of memory and entirely
fictitious There is no truth but hospitals no streets but bloodlines and we are back at
departures and distances which is your proximity to the actual occurrence that nestles in
your body and calls to attention remember, remember
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                           distance is beautiful
 
                           (                                )
 
                           home is exhausted
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I am exhausted when I read the world home. The front door shutting behind you is not the
front door shutting behind you nor is it the front door shutting behind you
 
I am exhausted.                    This is your home

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Ella Schoefer-Wulf is a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing candidate at California College of the Arts. Her work explores the intersection of language, the body and memory, specifically the subjugation of the body in relationship to the structure of linguistics and discourse. Alongside her writing she is a painter, printer and performance artist.

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