The cut flower still blooms
8-11, Toronto
May 2 - May 23 2015


the vestigial body
heavily rooted
gives up its skin
to the paring knife
the corpse falls dead
but the skin hangs on air
naked as a worm
nakeder, even
this disembodied body
is skin as skin
surface as surface
nothing besides
or behind

this isn’t horror but sci-fi
set in the not-too-distant future
when bodies seem less to
triumph over simian has-beens than to
reach for a humanoid body-to-be

just as a cut flower still blooms
the flayed skin shivers yet


Review: Magenta Magazine


Photos by Yuula Benivolski