LOLL JUNGGEBURTH

Four Corners : A World

  Video Description: the video depicts poet Loll Junggeburth sitting on stone steps, wearing a moss green coat and orange trousers. There is a dense hedge at the top of the steps. They are reading from a small brown pamphlets. The shot remains the same throughout, with only minor movements of camera towards the poet.

This film is a BlueHouse production.

This poem can found in Junggeburth’s pamphlet Speil:: Verstehen Welt:: Gestallten (SPAM Press, 2018) but was first published in Gutter Magazine.
Thank you to Loll Junggeburth for participating in BlueHouse’s first ever filmed poet collaboration!

Four Corners: A World
by Loll Junggeburth

I.
four angels hold
four corners of the world,
four winds roll the globe round,
white and crisp like sheets.

II.
Persephone goes downstairs
for winter: the sun went in
the fire went out
the future went out,
flickered. She peels
her first orange of the year.

she says:
i peel you like the man
used to peel a woman
with his eyes and hands,
before he found manners
and was told that women
are humans too.

she tastes:
a closed-eyed explosion,
sweet blind light
reaching and bursting
for tongue, for mind,
a warm fast dance.

III.
an avocado, just born of hard skin,
drops to the floor in Glasgow as
someone stamps their foot
in the flat upstairs, just
as a man drops feet-first
into a pit, dangling
like strange suit from rope
made for more wholesome things.

IV.
break! break—
the dry bone of time
cracking black dark
where calm wrestles
with chaos, that
divine maker,
makar, breaker white
on waves’ crest
falls in to blue