STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Blue Bunches
Jessica Wohl
2014
Napkins, pillowcases, shirts underwear, faux fur, synthetic hair, embroidery and machine quilting
29 x 29 inches
FISAYO ADEYEYE
Photo | Graph
The weight of his burnt body, hefted
over one of my knotted shoulders.
Like the mouth wedded to a fist,
the morning-gown a long drench
of sweat and weeds. How he came
out this water unhinged and unwinged
and misremembered. His name Icarus.
His face, still sun-kissed. Still dark
as olive. As oiled drumhead, still
beat in. Body blackened. Ocean
turned wax-river. Turned me
into believer. How most photos
can’t capture how his wings
back and fold. All power. No
aviation. Just the magic of muscle
pulling muscle. How one day sky
tumbled against hymn. Wrapped
hymn like a blanket, or a tourniquet,
something to hold my blood back
inside. How one day boy tumbled
from the sky and the way his wings
cut white lines into the sunlight
looked so beautiful, I prayed
but my prayer only stretched to hymn.
blckfsh / bird enthusiast / benign boy / fisayo adeyeye has works published in souvenir lit journal / nailed magazine / the birds we piled loosely / and he is the author of cradles (nomadic press 2017)
