‘If I wanted only to hold you
I would hold you prisoner.’ – Louise Glück, ‘Circe’s Power’
The water you put outside for the possums
has become a birdbath
You forgot to hit send on that e-mail draft
You usually make the opposite mistake
Everyone you know is a Cancer
(Something about you is catnip for water-sign men)
Possum calls sound like acid bass
The iPhone, a misery-delivery service
Impossible for non-locals to distinguish Lebanon from Gaza on Instagram
A blood-soaked teddy bear, fallen battler in the rubble
That cellist playing the Schindler's List theme in a city flattened by Israel using American
bombs enabled by Australian and global manufacturers
7NEWS winning the Walkleys
C sharp minor is not mournful enough to hold the grief of the deliberately unheard
Darfur women committing suicide to avoid being raped to death
A Gaza surgeon raped to death in an Israeli prison
A psychoanalyst earning 200+ AUD for <45 mins, in Naarm
I look for your signature in all the Gaza solidarity statements because that’s where I hope to
find the humanity I’ve been missing in our recent conversations
If I wanted only to hold you
I would hold you accountable
Angelita Biscotti is a contemporary artist working with photography, poetry, performance and sound design to explore the tension between motion and stillness, the intimacy between past and present, and how transformation is always possible no matter how frozen-in-place dominant ideologies seem. Angelita's electronic score for Ebony Rattle's globally touring "Winona" has been favorably compared to Portishead and the Twin Peaks soundtrack. In 2024 Angelita's "SORRY IM JUST A BASIC HYSTERIC!!!!!!!! a love & farewell letter to the clyde hotel on cardigan" (Cordite 109) was shortlisted for the prestigious Woollahra Digital Literary Award (Poetry). Angelita is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University.
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