ON POETRY 1 – May-Lan Tan - ‘Unmovable Mover’ (prod. Kumo)

Unmovable Mover

My other body is a metaphor
my other body is a blade
my other body is a baby born talking, describes heaven
and the heat in your hair 
my other body is the song Solomon forgot
of scorched earth & the taste of sweetness
my other body closes its eyes​​ & traces the print
my other body has a flashlight heart
on tiptoes in the deep end
of the house where you were always young
my other body carries its chalice to the altar
my other body always knows what to steal​ ​&​ ​when to stop
my other body doesn’t burn all the way to the filter
my other body is where other bodies go to die
my other body is smoke on your tongue, stars getting soft
my other body is the breaker.

May-Lan Tan is the author of the story collection Things to Make and Break (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award) and the chapbook Girly. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, The Atlas Review, Areté, and The Reader.

Kumo is Francesco Azzone, was born in Pisa in 1993. In 2014 he started Kaleidowave, with Giorgio Tropiano a.k.a. Hedra, a collective of Italian artists seeking out innovative sounds across different music genres, with a loose focus on ambient music, which de facto constitutes the original background of both young producers. Boards of Canada, Brian Eno and Aphex Twin have all been hugely instrumental to the creative growth of these young artists, inspiring them to push the envelope while creating their stylish, experimental productions.

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On Poetry

May-Lan Tan - Unmovable Mover (prod. Kumo)

We like to think of Arroyo as a boundless, ever-changing space, in which ideas can travel and unfold uninhibitedly. Our only constant is the will to transcend stylistic boundaries and music genres, to explode the conventional categories in order to foster experimentation and innovation.