Tag: contact zone

R.S.V.P. I – 1977
Pantyhose and sand
Senga Nengudi
American, born 1943

Senga writes: “I am working with nylon mesh because it relates to the elasticity of the human body,” Nengudi has explained. “From tender, tight beginnings to sagging… The body can only stand so much push and pull until it gives way, never to resume its original shape.”

wendy burk

Phosphorus

An enduring without sensible heat.

I.
No, it’s not the last day of the world, but I really need this.
All day long, people walking towards me, something shining
out of their mouths: are you bringing
light for me? No, they don’t want me. They barely know
to want themselves. But look at their faces,
their chins, how peaceful they are with it!

II.

I burn home. Around the table, my neighbors, glowing behind their faces like toy lamps. They are blue at dusk, blue crystal, under a light that leaves us.        If I could lift my hand, reach into my head, and pull out the beads of my fate-necklace, hot like an agate. Although it is not the last day, although for the rest of my life that hand will be deformed.