Iona Roisin
AFTER A STILL FROM I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
to enter the room
of that raw-red carpet
i pause–
i do not falter on the wounding
or the earth-dragged limbs
i do not slo-mo the fuck
paper strewn
like a divination
of breach
like her narrative
ripped up in mockery,
again
chair tipped over
table turned
if to clean is to undo
then i will polish
one blink in 24
until it reflects
back at me
an angel with limited means
drawing the brown curtain
for a crumb of privacy
locking the door
i fan embers, all spiteful
to decimate the leather
of his boots more fully
it is my turn
while she gathers herself
pre-pounce
Iona Roisin is a British artist and poet based in Helsinki Working across moving image and text, their practice is interested in ways of making, difficulty, intimacy, failure and the insufficiency of language. Roisin’s video works have been screened internationally and their poetry has been published in Tuli&Savu (FI), Oroboro (US), Propel Magazine (UK), Fourteen Poems (UK), Astra (FI), Zelda (FI) as well as in solo poetry zine Luminous Days, released by Fetiche Press (FI/FR) in 2022. They are a member of the trans publishing collective Almanac Press.
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