i heard it from a bird (bird was mom)

mom's voice playing on the phonograph, disco ball tiles, dried flowers, tumeric, mold of my hand from candles and tumeric, hand is wrapped with gauze dipped in soil, bird feather from the road outside, tincan phone, press on nails with silver nailpolish on the nails and the fingers they remind me of armor

i found out where the cicadas shells weep

shower head, red cabbage, some of my rain collection, paper pulp, tumeric, coffee grounds, hay, old sponges, found crocodile skin fabric, pantyhose, cloth pins, cardboard, cicadas shells on ash trays covered in rockite

“there’s the butterfly”

paper pulp, flour, coffee grounds, grass, woodshavings, dried flowers, soil, tumeric, house paint, press on nails painted red

i was digging through all the earth for you

soil, bathroom tiles, my hurt knee bandage with rosemary, milked almonds, hair pulled through, discarded wood, cicadas shells, butterfly wings, toothpicks, nail polish

i built a nest for what was left of the rain

shower head, red cabbage, paper pulp, tumeric, discarded fabric, jars of rain collected on many days

to build a bath for a fallen wing

3D print of a faucet, fish tank, blueberries, found broken door, wood from the James River, ladder made from hair

lilies of longing

my freshly bandaged knee heating on the stove, faux fur, grass seeded pillow, 3D print of a uterus, shark teeth

“the first time they balanced on a seesaw”

15 scripts we acted out to, strawberries, cabbages, house paint, a fan, mason jars, rainwater from 11/14/18 collected by many friends, wood, used zip lock bags, chalk, soil

“there are beetroots tying us together”

the lint of my neighbors, beets, lint rollers, steel rod, found bowl

the river of milk

homemade almond milk, flour, concrete, cue tips, house paint, onions, turmeric, wood, disposed of cake pans and my 2014 bed sheet

my friend yellowbody

note found at the James River on 03/09/18, 4 projectors, 3 cellphones, plaster, joint-compound, stools, soil, beet juice, bleach, cardboard, rocks, flashlights too see a little more clearly, sticksticksticks