wandering here in this dark
where it eating up the light
(for Ralph Ellison)
i hear no words
but these that mine
mouths open they wide
they make no sound
where my hands is they bound
i cannot find
in the bottles and cans
throwd here on the ground
who’s in this bag
what i totes for me
howcome me when they cut
they always see
something bleeding in here
that it never is me
aint i this shadow i supposed to be
dear god can you ever gone deliver me!
from inside here
where i’m supposed to be
Copyright © 1995 Asili Ya Nadhiri
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This double-voiced rendering of the tonal drawing is an example of what might occur when a poem escapes the prison of print and page and becomes an item in digital poetry. In a traditional live reading, it would not be possible to have the overlay of sound without the help of some time-delay mechanism. The digital tonal drawing allows us to hear subtle differences in emphasis of inflections in voice 1 and voice 2 as well as echoing that produces a state of “rendered-ing” or “rendering-ed.” Nadhiri’s conceptualization sends us to performance theory to find language to discuss self-reflexive echoes.
I just posted a comment on your performance. Jerry Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:02:18 +0000 To: jerry.ward31@hotmail.com
Jerry, you are making me consider extending this manner of expression more presently