Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
friend. One day, she is going to be an
ideas curator. Which basically
means, she will tell you
exactly what she thinks.
Until then, you’ll have
to read between
the lines.
sometimes she listens
with a glass
to the adjoining wall
between her home and the neighbours,
For often in the early morn
next door’s two year old, oblivious
to the drum reverberation of renovated floor boards
will run laps of the hallway:
thump thump thump thump thump.
And listening through the dome of a water glass
acutely tuned to the cliché of tiny feet,
she notes with neutrality that –
having forgone children,
the vast acreage of her womb, the unburst seed of her ovaries
do not glow, or ache, or vibrate with deficit
she is replete.
And still – that sound!
the thump thump thump thump thump
is so generous: it gives and gives and gives.
Despite the years, she listens and remembers
when each wall was a canvass,
each meal a riot of taste, each day the virgin experience.
She wonders if in place of salty lithium pills,
depressives should be given instead tiny devices,
cued to play the fibrillation of small feet
running long hallways.
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If ever there was cause for a ‘fuck yeah’ button next to the like… this would be it!
This really hit me Eleanor! So good.
Reblogged this on She Stole My Every Rock and Roll and commented:
Words/worlds are colliding. Betsy Turcot, I feel a little gunmetal grey in the sky, stirring up ashes and embers, heating the kettle for tea. Can’t wait for the Anywhere Theatre Festival…
I really love this poem Eleanor, tiny feet are a powerful metaphor :) Ali.