I reflected on the recent passing of the artist SOPHIE and how her work impacted me and expanded my perception of music and pushing boundaries of sound.
It is in the style of Laura Eve Engel inspired by the poem “for the sake of the heart we sacrifice the heart.”
the pearls weep for sophie
under the surf the symphony of synths
undulating kelp of no homeland
salutes her cheeks no longer ruddy
a dance known well in the nightdweller’s
tired playbook chalcedony slips past
lips scales as skin iridescent as dead retina
dense lashes salt clumped child’s play
of the silt laudation of the moon
in greek times is just as ominous as
any other celestial body an Icarus
on ice wings succumbs to the gravitational
pull satellites live in lilith falls to the sea
caressed by octopi carried by what befell her
she slips on latex shoulderly mitts
we almost touch the sacred scales
and their grape flavored cellophane
some golden as Twig’s foil cross
we bow our heads in sorrow
we bow to headbang
flanging through froth of milk
sodden sponge cake with a crunch.
