by D. Allen, 2023
We are bound together
I am to you
We are to them
I am of you as you are of me
We are with and within
Our ties are boundless
By choice or circumstance
We are bound up in each other
Paths shaping paths infinitely
Bound means binding
Tricky, tangled, tumbling
Hurtling and hurting and healing
Where I go you will someday follow
(Where you go I will someday follow)
Our constellations, our scars
A light leading home
Written for “Wheelchair Bound (remix),” a 2023 solo performance-installation at Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN. The poem was written and recorded by D. Allen, accompanied by Chaim Kokhleffel, Jabari Sellars, Hannah S Barco, Andrew Barco, Mercy Barco, Niko Tsocanos, Leila Awadallah, Merle Geode, Sun Yung Shin, Lamisa Chowdhury, Jonathan Damery, Sumana Damery, Emma Peterson, Halee Kirkwood, Admiral Wieland, Morgan Meyer, and Jordan Schuster.
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