nawa alviar horton

Orchids roll their eyes
                                                    Heavy
                                                                                  Into the back of their

pistols                    

We stand grotesque

In one of the largest garden pools

We,

 waxy wet rainforest

We

           (who)

                               Produces an orange to orange

                                                                                            sun lip

                                                 FOUL

SPOTTED LICKING EACHOTHERS’ SCENTS

THIS SPECIES OCCURS WITHOUT         CALLOUS      MISNAMING

Our,

Swollen cloud lips require fire toothed 

                                                                             Fangs

We          do best mounted.                                                             

Oblonging for leather dense                                          throats



IF GIVEN CONSISTENTLY UNIFORM               MOISTURE

We                                 appear half open
                                                          AND      

EASY TO FORWARD PROJECT

INTO A

                                                                                                        tongue    
                                                         

CRAMP OUR ROOTS TOGETHER UNTIL

We                                                                                                     odor

We          elongate cinnamon

and wait for the

heavily

blotched

horn.

THIS SPECIES OCCURS WITHOUT         CALLOUS      MISNAMING

You ,
        Red eyed with reward

 Sharply spined disgust creeps into a
                              

                                      15 – 25 CM ERECTION

You ,
        Persist long after
                                            FERTILIZATION
         
         Even when the 

   OVARY IS VISIBLY FORE FINGERED FORAGED

           IT BECOMES INCREASINGLY RARE FOR

VIGOROUS GROWTH TO RAPIDLY

FORM AFTER OVERINDULGENT CULTIVATION

 The visitations happen at the outer halves of bars

Several small insects  question you at the yellow side lobes

 WE TRANSPLANTED OURSELVES BEFORE YOU EVER COULD.

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nawa alviar horton, known as “Moonyeka” (they/them) is a mixed bakla-nonbinary Ilocano-Filipinx shapeshifter who takes form as an interdisciplinary performing artist, teaching artist, author, choreographer, curator, scholar, brujx and interdisciplinary artist. They have the honor of being the Artistic Director of The House of Kilig. Harana for The Aswang is an interdisciplinary performance work centered on the research of harana, a Filipinx serenade song form rooted in courtship and grief rituals. As a Jack Straw New Gallery Resident, Moonyeka & The House of Kilig will be opening a 6-week exhibition of this interdisciplinary performance research on May 31, 2024. nawa plays in the fields of autofiction and biomythographic writing practices and is working towards publishing their first book. Find them on IG @m00nyeka x @houseofkilig.

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