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Aching, Angry Awareness May 11, 2010
By L. Weldon
In Words is aching, angry awareness captured in text and images. Through the pages this awareness widens just as the author herself grows toward a larger selfhood.
In an early section a sharp piece entitled "Grey Instructions" mixes exactitude with sarcasm in lines like, "Carefully rip her skin off and remove her guts and cleanse with dish-cleaning liquid. Store in air-tight jar."
Midway, a resonant narrative titled "A Conversation" is evocative. In part it reads,
"I don't want to know. I don't want to hold power. I can not wield it in my own hands."
"The power does not flow where it is unwanted."
"What if I want it?"
"The power flows where it is welcomed. Longing for it does not summon it."
"What does?"
"..."
"I can't hear you."
That sentence, "I can't hear you" is found elsewhere in this volume. Perhaps it's about a choice, not hearing when feeling unheard, as in this passage,
"Everything you say is wrong:
Everything you say insults me.
Every word you speak shows me
That you don't understand me at all."
In Words ends on a note of greater resilience. It speaks of the passage to adulthood, quite fittingly as this work was completed when the author was between the ages of 14 to 16. Here are lines from "Meditation," "Now, The walls that lie within me....Let them crumble away."
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