Plan / To Start / Again
BY SHILOH YA'ARA BLUTTMAN.
this has not gone according to plan.
endless spindles worth
bearing the weight
of a single sun. and
a dog’s lapping tongue uproots the
cycles of the moon
across the pebbles
scattered so delightfully
over springtime grass,
the earth still cold.
forgiving your
unwavering integrity
is like dissolving sugar
for sickly hummingbirds.
hummingbirds being
the chance to start again.
Shiloh Ya’ara Bluttman is an artist & poet who thinks a lot about pomegranates and other peculiar things. Their work revolves around deviancy, semiotics, disability, repetition and queer interruptions. Her work has been published in Peal and Deviant Hollers, as well as exhibited across the southeastern United States. Shiloh was born in New York, currently lives on ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee) land, and is an MFA in Interdisciplinary and Indigenous/Decolonial Arts candidate at Goddard College. You can, or possibly cannot, keep up with them on Instagram @slugdyke.