Part of my "Resurrect Extinct Vibration Ritual"
involves building and writing inside a crystal grid that spans hundreds of
miles. I'm currently in the planning stages,
but will be ready to build the grid and write inside it this summer, 2018.
A combination of 9 different crystals (more to come on the
combination) will be buried in three different cities: St. Paul, Minnesota, Memphis, Tennessee, and
Cheyenne, Wyoming. The same crystals
will also be buried in Omaha, Nebraska. For
9 days I will sit on top of the crystals in Omaha, facing St. Paul the first
day, then Memphis the second, then Cheyenne, and continuing until I have
written through the triangle facing each location three times. With the buried crystals will also be bits of
my skin, hair, spit.
The Omaha portion of the ritual also includes eating samples
of dirt from all three locations, listening to ambient recordings from each
location, tuning in with my voice and body to deeply hum the pitch and
vibration of each different location. Samples
of finished poems from this ritual so far at THIS link and THIS link.
"Resurrect Extinct Vibration," is a
(Soma)tic poetry ritual in 9 parts. The
main ingredient involves inducing a trance by saturating my body with
recordings of recently extinct animals while lying on the ground across the
US. Another ingredient is drawing the
animals on index cards with request for correspondence, leaving them across the
nation in laundromats, coffee shops, etc., and I reply as ghost animals.
"Saint Francis Safe Passages" is an activist ingredient, writing to
elected officials to convince them we need thousands of land bridges across the
US-highways for animals to cross into safety.
