Art Wants // Megan Garrett-Jones

Written in response to a prompt from a Magical Women workshop with thanks to Elinor Rowlands

Art Wants by Megan Garrett-Jones (Video, Edit and Poem by the Artist)

Art wants

Unhurried inhabitance

Window daydreams & weight shifting creaks

Voice wants

Time to stop

And to be coddled

Art wants to bedazzle

Art needs a party date

Voice wants to sing together

& needs kindred spirits

Art wants hairy obsessions

From the folds of history

But I only want mysterious meetings.

I need equal tomorrows.

Art wants you to gasp

Needs your gentleness

My voice wants to speak the names of flowers

To honour my grandmother’s memory.

She uses music to soothe & needs to awaken

I wander, but I need to choose a direction.

She guides and needs to reveal, to open portals

We follow & play

Arts shows off

& voice wants to authenticate

Art needs to educate

Voice joins a debate

Art alarms

Voice needs to learn

To speak up, in solidarity

Art plays tootsies & needs to outrage

Art wants to tickle & argue on stage

It wants to scream vive la revolucion

It needs me to listen to rectify my opinions.

I want to understand and feel the injustice

There’s an art that wants to unsettle

It needs to make space for different textures

I want to scrunch in my fingers

I need to feel to transform

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