
Focus your energy and breath on your gut.
Rituals are contagious
To soothe, to heal
From synapse to sinew
Bacterial spores
Speak the mother tongue of our bodies.
We’ve lost touch with
Our own belly brains
From microbe to macrocosm
Of our interconnected selves.
Let us touch you now
Transmitting energy through
The liquid plasma skin
Where our worlds meet.
Unfurl the knots within the stomach,
Unravel the intestines.
There and not there,
Invisible, yet
Hairs stand raised and goose bumps quiver.
Focus your energy and breath on your gut.
Gutzoom is a collaboration between Jesse May Fisher, Treeney Harkin, and Rieko Whitfield, who met, conversed and created this work in the virtual realm.