Lindsey Barlag Thornton
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    • This
    • we are the things of ghosts
    • the timekeeper's meditation
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    • Endure
    • Remember That Time
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    • while our blood's still young
    • HybridSalon
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    • Kirsten Leenaars
    • Michael Patrick Thornton
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Lindsey Barlag Thornton

written for In Flux, THAWALLS 
with Udita Upadhyaya 
published in Propositional Attitudes: What do we do now?
Edited by John Burtle and Elana Mann.
Golden Spike Press. 2018

Boundary Line (For Falak)
Steal light from shadows.
Hear the music of air.

Become boundary.
Pass through.

Fail. Fret. Free (yourself).




Rest (For Joseph)
Find (a home for) your knees
Let them sink to sand.
Rest. Do nothing.
Unwrap your feet, soak.
Do nothing. Rest.

Arrangement #8 (For Kim)
  1. Plan something.
  2. Collect everything.
  3. Fill nothing with something.  
  4. Count everything with nothing.
  5. Remember something.
  6. Forget nothing.
  7. Disperse everything.

written for a last a loved a long, 
​In Progress Series, MCA, 2018
with Udita Upadhyaya

to hold
to let linger

in tenderness
in affection

with vulnerability
and hope

this is not a catalogue of hugs
this is not a narrative of a relationship

this is a practice in reciprocity
to be witnessed
to be enacted

this is an invitation

how might we play
how might we sink into a moment of touch
how might we share space with another

how might we find each other, a last
a stranger, a neighbor, a friend, a loved
how might we remember even as we part, a long

here you are
listening, longing
do you feel you
attending to your other
a small act of repair