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"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Post
WE ACCESS THE MIRACLE
Through ease
Is the hypothesis.
The task is to source from the quiet
Instruction
And from confusion
The instinct organized
As impulse and
Into my arms as extension.
I walk back to the hotel
With two limes and a watermelon.
Tonight:
Water and watermelon
AISHA SASHA JOHN is a performer, choreographer, and poet. She’s the author of I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart, 2017), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, THOU (Book*hug, 2014), a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the ReLit Poetry Award, The Shining Material (Book*hug, 2011), and the chapbook TO STAND AT A PRECIPICE ALONE AND REPEAT WHAT IS WHISPERED (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). As a dance artist, Aisha is interested in performance as a site of rehearsing being and in the power of reception as creative methodology. She’s the inaugural Affiliate Artist at Toronto Dance Theatre where her work The Pool, made with the TDT ensemble, will premiere in winter 2025. Aisha’s duet DIANA ROSS…
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