Brenda Iijima

UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN OUT BEYOND THE HORIZON

Does meaning implode reality? A super pumped up action figure

that could pass as The Hulk mauls the partition

between male and female

Monster shadows

pass the backface of the mirror

Not that you could see see, backface

Spoiling, soiling, touch of dirt

water evaporates, a star explodes

            neuron, amygdale

            caution, fission

                        scarecrows, illusion: it gnaws

on the lawn it

it: witness, gnaws and again she is in an abject position

crawling with haunches exposed to the sun

a sundress, strapless

the sun, of our universe

she is experiencing extreme trauma

this is a world

now she is rolling around in the grass, it rains, elation

there was a garden here but it is overgrown and the house is decaying

there was a forest here, she’s in the central square rolling

She is a woman and the sun makes her dizzy

Had she actually buried her brother, was she a subversive to the State?

With her fists she fights the light

The State is sexless amped up             clamorous we wished

No!

That’s not at all how it was. She wasn’t screaming and rolling

in the green expanse and yes, she buried her brother

which was against the law

and therefore what she did was treason

but the state was despotic and their laws benefited

the ruling class, an upper tier of society who had removed

themselves from the suffering they caused

She was depicted as abject not subject, subjected

The narrative was constructed by the above said party

of rulers

In fact she was a leader of her people and

vocal   vaginal megaphone

She wore the exact same toga as the men did

Her articulations of the law, vital, visual

Podium, addressing, the undressing

Antigone is but one example, ample

Not mimetic, not total, total