STATE LIBRARY SHOW ORDER:

1. Aaaahhh (A note growing)- 

2. Superstitions text - (into nasal sound) - ahhh flourishes

3. Eh Oh Eh Ah - dissonance 

4. Mm ah mm ah 

5. She fought the Ocean (Salt 3)

6. Salt 2 (salt dry on my skin)

7. She breathes out her insides and throws them at the walls

8. Scale into we are the women the water rejects (softly)

9. Waters rising song

10. Don’t get upset darling

11. Salt poem text

12. Salt 1 (there's a desert)

13. Hmmm (transition moment)

14. While a woman treads

15. Eee Oh Chant (chest beat) 

16. Aaaahhhh (A note fade out)

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SALT POEM

There's a desert

or a mountaintop 

or a pile of salt on a dining room table, a girls slim fingers sidling around it

a mermaid, an eye, a spelt out fuc- before mother swipes through

and now the salt pours inside her belly

fills her up as she grows 

sucks the wet from her insides

so when she breathes the leaves crackle and fall 

and people cough

and lakes dry up

and she keeps breathing

and filling the salt with all the 

stuff

from the outside

so there's an ocean, or a salt flat, or a pile of little crystal snowflakes 

and it hurts

to have her stomach so dry it burns 

and her throat so itchy it's cracked

she hasn't spoken in years

can't 

speak without seizing up

drink 

breathe

and so she coughs

and vomits and retches

and the salt comes up

brings with it silt and dead leaves and years old driftwood

preserved apples

glass rims filled with bitter cheap 

stuff

and her chest is raw and throbbing pink

throat clawed up

maybe this hurts as much as the dry did

all the wet blood and sweat

but she's done it now 

and she breathes out her insides

throws them on the walls around her 

and into the people she sees

so she's everywhere

and the salt is gone 

and she can speak again.