LUCIA DE-POLI




























CLOUDS WASH OVER ME



I'M INTERESTED IN THE CLOUDS AND HOW THEY MOVE, HOW THEY CHANGE SHAPE AND COLOR, HOW THEY ARE THE APEX OF A CYCLE, HOW SIMILAR WE ARE TO THEM AND HOW THERE IS A DREAMING INSIDE OF OBSERVING THE CLOUDS. I HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHING CLOUDS TO STUDY AND ADMIRE THE POWER THE CLOUDS HAVE IN A SOFT WAY. I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT THE CLOUDS WOULD FEEL LIKE. DREAMING OF HOW THE CLOUDS WOULD FEEL LIKE TO TOUCH, TO STAND ON, TO DANCE IN AND TO LAY ON. I AM INTERESTED IN HOW SELF AND NATURE INTERACT. NATURE HAS A WAY OF SHOWING YOURSELF TO YOURSELF. FINDING PLEASURE INSIDE OF THAT KIND OF DREAMING AS I USE MULTIPLE TECHNOLOGIES TO LAYER MY POEMS WITH SOUND/AUDIO AND MY PHOTOGRAPHS/VIDEOS OF CLOUDS TO RECREATE THE SENSE OF DREAMING WITH YOUR EYES OPEN.



I INVITE YOU ALL TO DREAM WITH YOUR EYES OPEN ALONGSIDE ME.












Play Never Never Never by Chiara Civello Before Reading


Fifty Five



Loving you

Loving me

Loving us too bad it’s was just lust



12:22 3/30/17 55 11:11 2/9 96                five of me

4/7 98 5/5 7/7/17

18.21.17 24.22.20                                 five of you



One

Two

Three

Four

I don’t miss you anymore

Trying to make it to Five

six seven

Eight It’s to late



Bitter sweet



Thin

Green Apple

Slices

Thinner than your patience

Dipped in

Honey

Sweet Bitter

Chiclet white piano keys

Crunching and chewing

Open mouthed

Tongue getting caught up in the gooey peanut butter and your lies that You

That I would never realize



Laid back

Cool as a cucumber your

Spine imprints into the plush pillows

Closed your eyes

Licked your fingers

As if it’s your last supper

Moaning to affirm

That your taste buds were finally saturated

in pleasure







Your heavy head gently laid into my pillow like thighs as you close your eyes



The only time I feel safe is dreaming in this bed



There was something easy about you but not the way I was or I am



Briskly blown together

To storm and hale

Shatter the windows

And rain down



Now



Stagnant waters

We wait

Surface tension

Rising before

You feel like you can’t hold your breath any longer and finally........................ it





Breaks



Radiating out you

Shine so brightly

Onto my edges

Casting a spell your

Beaming light cuts through my center

Consuming my everything





Floating by

Passing by

Like Two ships

Passing in the night

Foggy mind barely can see your f—ace

What a delight

As your warm light

Shines onto my edges

Wrapping me up in your warm embrace





Waxing and Waning











My thumb prints

Trace down the sides of your nose

Brushing out like cat whiskers as I

Trace

Down

Up and Around

Your closed eyes

Floating

Together we rise

to the heavens

with each inhale



Relaxation

Appreciation

Meditation

No communication



Where was your patience Up

In the clouds

Where we used to hang Out



Way up high

We can’t live life when it’s low

A gust of wind picks us up

Maybe it was fate

We drifted apart



More like torn apart



Bitter Sweet



You

Picked me Up and

Placed me on the                                         end of your mind I’m

Hanging on by a thread one last time

Slipping off the edge

Losing my balance

Tittering over the threshold

Steep drop

It’s a long fall

down



If I could fly



Trespassing over consent is so consistent for you






We had Fun Together


Stage Fright

Reborn

When I see You

In my Room


We loved hard

We loved quick

We loved one another

Perhaps

We loved too hard

We loved too quick

We lost each other


I still look at the sky with such awe just like when I look at you



I miss admiring you

I miss being loved by you

I miss us

I miss looking into your soft eyes

and how quickly, they can turn

so cold

I miss seeing your soft eyebrows as I

would trace them with my thumbs

I miss admiring you

I miss being loved by you

and your long lashes

Every time you would blink

I would just think

How

Lucky

I

am

How you would lick your lips

Sometimes you’d stutter when you spoke


You would get ahead of yourself







I miss how you looked at me

I miss how you saw me when I

didn’t see you

I miss looking at you while you

would see me

Because

I always

saw

you


We Had Fun Together Didn’t We?



Clouds


maybe it's the way you shift?

the way...   

you


Maybe

itssss..


your ability to

let go


And keep moving

And keep moving forward


You get violently torn apart yet You...

Reform

so effortlessly So quickly!

Is it fight or flight?

How you were made?

Maybe?


Maybe it's the way you were made?


Your ability to just,

be


Be in The Now.


With the weight of a soaking wet bath towel pitted in your stomach

Trying to ring it out

Uneasy to manage


And then...


It rains

And

you sigh

As the weight is released


Your open arms

always ready to receive

Whatever floats by



I miss admiring You