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23 May 2024
Kurt Cole
Eidsvig
Full Moon
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Three Breaks
After Armando Guadalupe Cortés’
El Descanso en la Gloria / Rest in Glory (2017)
There are too many ways
to break yourself.
No one needed to invent one more.
There are three new ways to break myself
from the memories clinging at my throat.
There are three Jesuses we all become.
There are three new potter’s shards after
we stumble and right ourselves
at a party we weren’t invited to.
How else can you reassemble a life
besides struggling to bounce at birthing?
How else can a story end? After this,
there’s nothing.
Behind the poem...
In the video El Descanso en la Gloria, artist Armando Guadalupe Cortés, with clay pots fastened to the ends of his long braids, moves his body and head until eventually these vessels smash into shards. The performance recalls traditional storytelling and myth, as well as religious practices. It’s immediately stunning, beautiful, and heartbreaking: radiating intensity and grace as it presents the entire cycle of creation and destruction in multiple gestures.
