thousand kisses
one hundred
by Carolyn Defrin & Abigail Boucher
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This audio-visual installation, commissioned by the Albany theatre, premiered at Deptford Lounge in London in November 2019.
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It featured original poetry, provocative kissing questions and a hotline for library patrons to call in and listen to local Deptford stories.
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Created in collalboration with composer, Mikhail Fiksel.
Image design by Tom McDowell.
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one hundred thousand kisses
by Carolyn Defrin
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In this rubble rust red heartbreak time of tumult
grows a movement of remembering
of a hundred thousand kisses that you gave me and a hundred thousand more
I’ve yet to give
this shape will shift
these holes will hold
and a healing will become me
in the meantime
in the waiting, willing wanting time
let my forensic heart shine light and show that even just one hundred thousandth
of a kiss
burns brighter than a bomb
