DAY 10: Jude Bird – The Wellcome Collection Exhibition ‘Joy’

I dance the tarantella

I am victim, alone in my joy

rich clinging canopy

damp growing earth,

 

Tarran tarran !

 

Notes of the other

hands on the chords

my brain side – stepping

my fingerprints scarred.

 

O Ocean O World

tongue of salt,

open your wounds

let them play

and unbroken

I will dance the tarantella.

 

by Jude Bird

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