{"id":5161,"date":"2025-03-25T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/?page_id=5161"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:20:47","slug":"hermaphropoetics-brown-dust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/new\/index.php\/hermaphropoetics-brown-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermaphropoetics\/Brown Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1742914303900{margin-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6a21db02cfaac{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-0 vcex_6a21db02cfaac\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Hermaphropoetics \/ Brown Dust<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221;]The camera zooms and pans<br \/>\nblinking in and out sunlight\/blackness<br \/>\na glass of ice water sparkles<br \/>\nsunlight\/blackness<\/p>\n<p>The hermaphrodite<br \/>\nseated on the stump of a tree<br \/>\nhis teeth overlapping<br \/>\nout of her mouth protrudes his tongue<\/p>\n<p>Hibiscus goose grass leaves mango<br \/>\nsunlight\/blackness<br \/>\nshe could feel the shape of colors<br \/>\nthe flesh of the apple drinking colors<\/p>\n<p>Blood of the months of the year<\/p>\n<p>Four bearded elders linking arms<br \/>\ncircling clockwise<br \/>\nevery day bears the data sweat mucus<br \/>\ntears urine corkscrews of earwax<\/p>\n<p>A strange rain vertical\/horizontal<br \/>\nlayers of brown dust light heat<br \/>\nsee the subjects<br \/>\nspectacular the photos<\/p>\n<p>Photos of a master photographer<br \/>\nfocusing her lens &#8211;<br \/>\nthe physical poetic eyes seeing<br \/>\nan asymmetrical form<\/p>\n<p>Blinking in and out sunlight\/blackness<br \/>\neyes seeing<br \/>\nthe size of the skeleton the bones<br \/>\nthe shape of the head<\/p>\n<p>Micrographic photographs<br \/>\neye sockets thickness of fat layers<br \/>\neyes seeing a slit in the stalk<br \/>\nblood seeping<\/p>\n<p>The hermaphrodite emptied of allegory<br \/>\nseated on the stump of a tree<\/p>\n<p>The hermaphrodite<br \/>\nher\/his body swaying side to side<br \/>\none foot sunk in mud a hand dangling<br \/>\nout of the frame<\/p>\n<p>A flush of wet hot air burning<br \/>\nher neck and face<br \/>\nfive musicians chanting drumming<br \/>\nsquatting on their heels<\/p>\n<p>Sinuous the rhythms beneath the skin<br \/>\nthe nerves spirals of veins<br \/>\nfibrous tendons<br \/>\ntwisting zigzagging<\/p>\n<p>Six bearded elders linking arms<br \/>\ncircling circling clockwise<br \/>\na boy warrior with pierced nipples<br \/>\nHer soaring paper thin shoulderblades<\/p>\n<p>green and pale the scrotal lily<\/p>\n<p>The muscles of his onion-shaped calves<br \/>\nspasmodic in the dust<br \/>\nan impure creation captured after the siege<br \/>\ncarnal\/spiritual<\/p>\n<p>Teasing femme\/homme<br \/>\nher henna-dyed palms his fingers<br \/>\nworking black kohl<br \/>\nthe inner and outer eyelids<\/p>\n<p>Rose gold the eyes of the hermaphrodite<br \/>\nmolecular the creeping tension<br \/>\nthe flow of hormonal forces<br \/>\nsunlight\/blackness<\/p>\n<p>Every day bears the data<br \/>\na master photographer altering<br \/>\nperception the ruinscape disappearing<br \/>\nsigns and wonders<\/p>\n<p>In the concrete space audio recordings<br \/>\nfluorescent bulbs protruding<br \/>\na little girl dangling<br \/>\na vinyl mask<\/p>\n<p>A little boy wearing harem pants<br \/>\nfickle he saunters by the taste of her sweat<br \/>\nseawater his\/her body<br \/>\ncarnal\/spiritual<\/p>\n<p>Wedding bells Wedding cake<br \/>\nberries and apricots under the veil<br \/>\njoyful the bridegroom<br \/>\nlifting the veil<\/p>\n<p>A long curved fingernail<br \/>\ntracing the cleft<br \/>\npale and red the folds slashes<br \/>\nof color seeping<\/p>\n<p>the flower vulva cut away<\/p>\n<p>Eight warlords singing<br \/>\nlinking arms circling circling clockwise<br \/>\nbulbous and blood-packed<br \/>\ntheir lips<\/p>\n<p>Nine chanting the legend<br \/>\nwaxing poetic<br \/>\na legend of a child falling out of the sky<br \/>\nsee the photos sunlight\/blackness<\/p>\n<p>A white swan shimmering<br \/>\nin scene after scene a strange rain vertical<br \/>\n\/horizontal blinking in and out<br \/>\npiles of rocks<\/p>\n<p>Fluorescent bulbs protruding<br \/>\na figure trussed and lying down<br \/>\nA camera flash<br \/>\na glass of ice water sparkles[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1742914303900{margin-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; 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