Break a Myth
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What is it to
break a myth?
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Is it like grinding
steel that writhes
with angry
spits of fire
at the cut?
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Is it like taking
off your geranium
red lipstick
leaving a smear
of a false smile
on your chin and cheek?
Or wiped clean, without
a mark, or a trace
of spent emotion?
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Is it like sawing
off a tree trunk
or a plaster body cast
at the waist with a hand
held hack saw?
The tree falls with its boughs
and the body stands
on its own legs?
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Is it like seizing terror
from your heart- long
cold teeth clawed
into soft pink
tissue? And the shark bite
is a chiseled lie,
a sliver of fiction?
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Is it like swallowing
seeds of rose bushes
in the spring time
and slowly feeling the petals
of unfurling pink,
spinning yellow and
kissed red by June?
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Is breaking a myth
telling the truth?
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Is breaking a myth
Breathing at last?
Catherine l. Johnson 30 June 2011
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BLACK DOG CAFE
http://blackdogstpaul.com/
28 MAY 2015
PERFORMANCEREADINGPOEMIMPROVMUSICIANS: performed in 3 cycles.
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Cycle I
Catherine L. Johnson: poet/reader
Aaron Tafoya: Glass drum
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Cycle II
Catherine L. Johnson: poet/reader
Aaron Tafoya: Glass (green) drum
Audience: readers/singers
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Cycle III
Nora O’Brien: vocalist
Aaron Tafoya: drums
Eric Carranza: bass guitar
Pratik Singh: percussion
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Catherine, Aaron, Pratik, Eric
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Nora
CATHERINE L. JOHNSON 
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