Float

by M. Kitchell

An ocean-side institution, a fractured love-affair, seizures, haunted dirt.

Available as a free PDF download from solarluxuriance.com

32 pages

First published January 1, 2010

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[S̶e̶a̶n̶ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haunting text and imagery of institutionalization, a dead and/or past lover, dreams, hallucinations, bodily fluids, fading in and out of consciousness, escape and release...a slurry of pain and past pleasure simmering in the hot sun.

name three colors: black, red, and gray. /// black: the night, the day, the inside, the outside, all the text above that would otherwise be the solar burn, a pile of dirt kept in the middle of a room, three words whispered in the dark between patients, subjects, the question of the object, what is the point, in lightning the end of the world, i swear i can hear screams, the other rooms in this wing completely abandoned, nothing in the room but a cot and a window, no curtains, skin that sweats with the black sun. /// red: the institute is laid out by the sea, next to dunes, they are often described as pyramids, imaginary, the sun beats down on sand that burns feet, violence, is all we can feel from the walls, a violent burning, is all our skin can bare, violence, is all that pulls at our waves, violence, there is no sea life approaching our beach, crabs are too far under, they choke on sand and never resurface, violence, the water glows with the sun, violence, i just think that i miss you. /// gray: the color of the nurses and doctors, the color of the thin sheets they keep us in when we are not nude, the perpetually overcast sky, the rain that floods and leaks, staff that exist only in words and remain invisible to bodies, entire teams of scientists that never leave this paragraph, electricity.