For Eiko & Komo
dragging her fingernails across the air as she comes
stage left, he steps from darkness into his flesh
under the minatory glare of X the flexed
tendons of his fingers, her eyes and
lips flare when he stumbles
she is aware without looking
almost they embrace the
vessels and nerves of their cheeks under
thin strata of fascia when
her mouth breaks black open
when stage right he exits cupping the wound
when she cries out (in Japanese)
“I see the world upside down”