Hooked
Mixed media on paper
20cm x 20cm
© Brian Pike
Renée E. D'AoustThrough The Blueness
Steel-blue lips parted the water
Parted my insides
My body did not respond
Not hand, not leg,
Nor breast, nor mouthAbove the blue,
The wind snapped trees,
Knotted a mallard’s feathers,
Twisted the fisherman’s ropeThe water leashed me under
Broke my skin, chafed my eyes,
Seared my lungs
Yet spoke to my ears
With words I had never heard
And never will againListen now
To an expansive deep
A stillness so real
Do not move me
Let the rope
Leash me still
Bio:
After dancing professionally in NYC, Renée E. D'Aoust graduated from Columbia University. D'Aoust has received Idaho Arts Commission (NEA) grants, the Julie Harris Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights from Food for Thought Productions, and the 2002 Midnight Sun Fiction Award. Publications include Apollo's Lyre, Black Canyon Quarterly, Canoe and Kayak Magazine, Permafrost and elsewhere.
