Chiara Alessio
Ek / Ke (Somatosensory)
Mineral and secular
Soma and somatos
Your figure has dislocated its joints and slogged through
It has become slime, it has housed itself within the cracks of our own brains
Inside our own memories
You’re everlasting
Ek ek ek ek ek ek ek ek ek ek ek
Ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke ke
You are ejecting out of my very eyeballs
We see you everywhere
Everywhere we go
Mineral and secular
Soma and somatos
Chiara Alessio is a writer, researcher and archivist whose work follows along the line between memory and the present. Her poems excavate with the senses, with remembrance, with recalling, exploring the past and the future. Her work has been published both in the US (Gypsophila Zine) and Ireland (The Abyss).