Author: [[Abe Brownell]] *Written after Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn* # Performance Notes - Start very slowly --- # Poem Underside the stain | on the inward surface I let the silences | expand Fill the empty | spaces | among my organs Where they need to be I go out | and walk | to digest it See the disturbances | in the air | bending light Bending in knots | around the axons Tie them off | to a later date Fire them | out of the projection room Photons and disarray Inward manufacture | of mirror image Wafting off | the silver screen Continuous luminescent birth | of you Soft landing | out of abstraction Specific | to that smoke in the light Still there | in a dark room No longer hungry | for a version of you Withdraw the exact figure | of all the frames in sequence Sound it out | of the beauty Rolling cascade | of celluloid Wash yourself | away Reenter as | the credits roll Hear the birds | again | and know what time it is Stretch and shuffle | back to the surface Break down | the stillness Go out | and walk | to digest it Let the feet carry you | out into the night Pouring rain and | return home Settle your shadows Another dream