Emotional Index

Vivienne Neale
ISSUE 2006-1
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Emotional Index A spiral of hair in the bristles of brushes, wisps of dead skin on the inside of jumpers, tears of mascara on white linen pillows, fat from the bacon congealed in a grill pan, ghostly indents from the press of a biro, wine spills transferred onto printed cream paper, gravel in soles of high ridged black trainers, indelible pollen from lilies, stained yellow, magnetic words sticking close to the metal, networks and space maps of unused potential, virus and genome pre-programmed responses, traces of lives in the space of a headstone, bodies curled under in sculpted lapilli, carbon dioxide breathed over thick pigment, x-rays reveal the initial intention, foam on a beer glass and pink lipstick lip prints, are moments of silence: an emotional index.