Snapshots of a love, a shared love in the form of poetic prose. A system of 9 texts – a symbolic number that will not be explained here, its meaning remains unknown – are thematically connected, centered around a person and a romantic relationship. Moments, temporal boundaries and margins – the concept of time runs through all the texts – objects, sensations with a linguistic veneer; words are created – neologisms – etymologies are attempted, phonetic/phonological and morphological analyses are made, and the language of the internet is used. Achronically, lexical whirlpools swirl around signifiers, arbitrarily connected to signifieds.
Language – in all its forms – is what reflects and constructs the world, the world of love. An I and a You. Anyone can place whoever they want in the position of You. One can identify, disagree, take the blank and erase.
CHALÁLI Black river turning red. The heart will open in two. I liked to see you laugh. I liked to see you in general. Maybe I still do. Still in the travels of the mind, when the eyelids close. Or when the salty lakes of tears overflow. It’s okay, I told you.
Etymology: from the Arabic word halal (لالح), which means permissible, lawful, as opposed to haram (حرم), which means forbidden. In modern Greek, it was inherited through Turkish and is used as an adverb to indicate something given with pleasure, something worth it, or consent for something. There couldn’t be a more fitting word. Consent to open my heart. Its borders unguarded. The heart is captured.
To walk through the bosoms, the bellies of it, to relax the valves, to slide down the vessels, to use the diaphragm as a bridge to pass from the right to the left side and vice versa. If it was worth it, I don’t know. If it always gave pleasure, I know. The answer is negative. But who said pain isn’t sweet;
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