in the river

learning to swim
for winter solstice show
"Ur'sa's Imaginings"

learn swaying from the trees

after the sun sets, sometimes we setup the shadowsheet at home
and conjure

peek in here some evening>>
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shadowjam

live snail streaming

cut cut cut cut cut cut

full moon
two hue
blue sheets

jen's a cat
jen eats tuna
tuna guitar
tuna baguette

cat manifest!
summoned from
neighbors

in the bag & out of
the bag.

how do you say
"cat has your tongue?"

no face chicken birth

eager to consume, jaws doctor

we're goin' down
we're goin' down
we're goin' down

here
kitty
kitty
things are lookin'
up

what did the snails mother know?
I thought you would know?

trans

chicken labour

chickens are (intersexed)
humans are stupid

learned it from the
snails, learned it from
their mothers.

I'm having a thought
it's really hard
I'm really constipated

eating thoughts. words
the gods are always drunk & playing with the planets

our unknown fold of dirt

this planet stinks.
it has potential_being fermented

organizing=counting with your toes.

scanning for chicken

finding a jar in the dark
eons and eons.

"oh it's so hard to be a
planet, people
step on me
cats always step on me"


I can't stop thinking
about plants

focus

no freestyling
read the manual

wings beginnings is books flapping

pointed finger learns

a jar that's not really there

at the bottom of the jar:

heart green with envy

heart pulsing red

my broken heart disco courtship
between fork+rope

fuckedupedness
forkedupedness


Declaration-Laughter is Not Prohibited!

-the wizard of wisdom's wise intructions:::
1-put on your glasses
pickup a flower
2-hold the flower high
3-then dance!


(sup sup birthday broth)

-à montreal après shadowjam notes

wavy fingertips

reaching!

absentminded

fingertips and lips
moving

it seems
preserved

seens
reserved

shelving reams

absurd!

a movement of shadows
(always made by other things)


illuminatingotherworldly
happenings

listening jarred

jar's travel far

(everything comes from somewhere)
















the wind can no longer be heard through the trees

(silence fills the branches)




seeing leaves is as much hearing leaves


stop. watch

(searing thieves)



mind's eye
mind's I
I see
I mind

they capture

(seize)

all that sounds


to

produce sound

(under wraps)

control sound

(containment of synapses)

preserve sound
(digitize)

assign a role
(label, name)

protect
(from the same)

project
(illuminate)




stuck behind panes

(reclusive)


obtain



am I obtuse?

THE ARCHÆOPTERYX

A good restoration of the oldest known bird,

Archæopteryx (Jurassic Era).

It was about the size of a crow;

it had teeth on both jaws;

it had claws on the thumb and two fingers;

and it had a long lizard-like tail.

But it had feathers,

proving itself a true bird.

crow sketches

sees us

black inky movements
sketching across the ground

turn, turn,,,,

stop.

stare.

hop skip hop
hip hup hup

up
.
.
.
up
.
.
perch on wires,


gawk.


swoops from bough to bough


stare.



swift cackle!



flail.


watch, search, scavenge,,,,

communicate.


(gentle clicking)



lurch

leer

urge


(bird dirge)


can always wait.


say what you see!

(or just watch)


is it urgent?


(listen)



~

-black costume
-anklet claws, bare feet
-ears and beak shadow mask eyes up peck peck
-wing tufts
-fitted body with loops and places to attach stuff
-slick suit
-tail clackers laughing
-concise language
-movements