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Chitty - Semay Wu

from Faultline by Lisa Fannen and...

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  • Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Chitty

I recall
her small frame
resilience.

Long ninety years of life
a bit of soup, some yoghurt
soft for the old gums
and her yelling
and her resistance
and her terror.

How she was handled
lifted, washed, wiped
minimum wage haste
Watch her, they said
watch her, she bites.

I recall
the smell
roast beef and overcooked veg
piled into the blender. A grey mush
the medication crushed in, spike
served up. A napkin wedged hard
down the front of her dress at the neck.

Tired, overstretched women
their own laundry left, children to care for
between shifts, dead to themselves, shouting
dinner time, dinner time at her.

Beautiful old woman
I don’t forget
who bit the hand that fed her
and touched her how she didn’t
fucking want to be.

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from Faultline, released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded by Jer Reid.
Sound produced and mixed by Semay Wu.
Semay Wu
Semay Wu is a composer, sound artist, cellist and a remote part-time curator based in Central Scotland who has worked all over the UK, Europe, US & Asia in various contexts since 1998. Her work explores improvisation methods via electro-acoustics, visual work and composition strategies that look for relationships in and amongst sound, space, movement, and what emerges from this. In 2016 she founded an event series dedicated to under-represented voices in electronic music and sound art, which became the New Emergences Foundation.

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