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A Bloodless Ballet

from Ekphrasis by Urban Vitamin

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(For the sake of the concrete let’s call it a)
Shaft or a glass or a heart or something
That’s a soul, an idea, or a thought still unseen,
still unseen till it bleeds or it breaks or it splinters in your
hand and you’re picking at the shrapnel that is also your skin.
Not that it hurts
or that it stings
but this is the thing:
the one is now many.

The whole is now rent
the circle is cracked
the flood is let in
the gates will burst
but this is thing the one is now

Maybe the only place for the
Unstripped, inviolate object is
where our sight sets it all on fire.

Does the thing exist whole in the periphery?
No division there between subject and object

I feel like I need
More than this ballet
Bloodless and forever the same.
I feel like I need
More than this ballet
Bloodless and the same.

Eye (before lash lets in light that refracts)
Swims in ooze of the dark where the world’s still unseen
Still unseen till it bursts with a vein of the dust
That everything now becomes – seen
That everything now becomes – gleaned.
But this is the thing
The one is now many

Does the thing exist whole in the periphery?
No division there between subject and object

I feel like I need
More than this ballet
Bloodless and forever the same.
I feel like I need
More than this ballet
Bloodless and the same.

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from Ekphrasis, released February 3, 2017

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Urban Vitamin is an alternative metal band from Pretoria, South Africa, formed in 2008 by members, Cobus Nigrini, Rick De Villiers, Neville Botha, and Cicero Carstens. In 2014, Ricky Dunningham took over on drum duties after Rick De Villiers left to complete his PhD in Durham, UK. ... more

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