Collaboration #3: Robbie Coburn & Michele Seminara

Blood   (Robbie Coburn)

triggering the pulse, you observe yourself listening.
though silent now, words form on your lips. closer
to you now you sweep all absence away. a deserted body,
the empty bed shrinking into burning nights.

the buildings stand as formations of longing
the embrace frantic within you. unseen
you write across the darkness
ink a permanence beyond you.

now masked in flesh you hear the rain.
there is blood in these words.

Pulse   (Michele Seminara)

Listen. Silence now,
an empty bed, the sweep
of frantic embrace.

Masked by rain you ink
your blood, your longing
an unseen formation.

This body, with its shrinking
flesh, its lips triggering words,
burns closer than the darkness
beyond.