Cassandra Stark Mele

A BUFFOON'S ATTEMPT

The sky is a buffoon's attempt to conceal chance. All is barefooted, one girl ponders the woods. Which way shall she roam? Who knows, Chi sa? Anyway, my left hand catches moths. Circles. The blue words fell from the sky and nestled upon my breast. I told them stories until they slept peacefully. Meanwhile, the barren wilderness became a sieve, I fell out. The bottom went dry, crackling. A small stone, a smooth relic is now imbedded inside my mind. I walked the weeded path calling out silly names like "Balaco." No wonder the birds are crying. No wonder stars hurt in whispers and the four winds taught us to dance. So many nights gathered into one embryo. He grows up to paint his shack red, the door blood red with a blue doorknob.

 Casandra Stark Mele, In Case of a Storm, 1995.

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Extrait de Surrealist Subversion, un recueil de textes du groupe surréaliste de Chicago :

"And New Yorker Cassandra Stark Mele provides a striking account of her personal struggle against parental and social oppression in "Your World, Not Mine." This essay shows the tragic consequences of adult repression of yearnings for the Marvelous in children, as well as how this trauma can be overcome. A child's response to life reveals deep truths about imposed social behavior, which can't be ignored."

(La photographie est tirée du film X is Y, de Richard Kern, dans lequel joue la poétesse et cinéaste.)