Riley Ratcliff: A Poetic Meditation on Connection and Identity
Summary
A poetic, abstract piece exploring themes of connection, identity, and the merging of two beings through objects and gestures. The text uses fragmented imagery (pocket, flint, bone, flowering limb) to meditate on whether two can become one when an object becomes identical to a person, removing the possibility of comparison. The work is highly lyrical and non-narrative, focusing on emotional and philosophical notions of intimacy and selfhood.
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· 3 pulledCan two become one if an object, having become identical to you is thus no longer subject to comparison?
Gift-abundance/ leaves for Esmé Flint in pocket, hand- ed into me (a notion of the heart I perpetuate in always so I ask in perpetuity)
as I am into being into you being into regardless of reality.
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