Stop-cock
Ian Hatcher
coloratura
stop-cock
when you blame
you find
vulgar demonstrations
indefensible
frigidity
steps on wire
indispensable
metal harmonics
viva voce
physical not
anatomical
hollow sepulchral
wooden
collapsed lungs
fall & drift
fill with others
becoming rigid
distrusting
lovers
without supporting words
our muscles
contract
arousing cool
streams
of admonition
reflecting
you as you are
a plaything
self prolonging
quiet night
yawn it excites
pupils
dual refracting
dimming image
backward tipping
trunk descendant
apparatus independent
decisions
body conscious
of two minds
fusing
tonal spine
curling
helpful/harmful
vibrations
we feel
in
deep
resounding
strokes
of tenderness
gestures for
protection
we just want
to rise & fall
in tandem
inside
sparking
safety lines
dummy
gymnastics
artificial bloom
self-diluting
tonic
as room is
dissolving
internal music
kindling
rising
mirror organ
crescendo
ever alive
steely flames
licking devouring
a heavy acid
heaving
saturating
mechanical bullfight
charging
master
this
golden age
of singing
softly
Ian Hatcher is a text/sound/performance artist, musician, and programmer living in Brooklyn. Abra, an artist's book and iPad app co-created with Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk, is forthcoming in spring 2014. More info and other projects: ianhatcher.net
