'Lineage' by Gillian Sze, Read by Cat Kidd (Two Versions) by antlercarver

Lineage by Gillian Sze, read by Cat Kidd
based on Self Portrait (2009) by Shane Wilson

There are memories we keep in bones:
porous, of wilderness,
fused long since.
What begins as nightmare,
we wake into, learn to weather,
weld deeper into us
so we die with fewer bones
than we’re born with.

Some of us turn into birds
take wing with the benevolence
of a Chinook,
speak with the roundness of grapes.

Others fly out like a flock of gods,
discover genealogies more lupine, more bovine,
become grand blueprints replete with stars.
Black-tipped, cold curvatures,
raw bone, vestigial horns.
An inarticulate clash of anatomies:
part curse, part calamity,
the ferocity of incisors,
and always a soft ache
lodged in old bones.

Contains tracks

• Lineage - by Gillian Sze, read by Cat Kidd by antlercarver
• Lineage - by Gillian Sze, read by Cat Kidd - version 2 by antlercarver