5 haiku mashup

by dao nguyen

mashup: in music, a dj samples two or more songs to create a new song

flutter, fluid waste,
here, now, she needs a gallon
of india ink

old and melted sounds--long, slow,
silencio muy grande,
falling is like this

pool of unsung words
smells of summer, hot paper,
i found that on the ground

the transparent self
stories of my ancestors
rise, not fall from hands

blowing, sucking soul
becoming flesh, i taste bile,
feather falls from nest

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this was written using words culled from questionnaires and process created by poet Andrew Sullivan which he originally used to write a poem for an exhibition for Robin Hill. fellow artists filled out questionnaires based on their responses to my own work. this poem is a collaboration between others' responses and my own appropriation/filtration/creation/thoughts about recently completed work exploring process and material using my snot-filled tissues as a primary material.