The project entitled A Monster in My Home includes three video/digital language art videos. These videos and accompanying poems tell the story of Timothy's experience moving into his first apartment, and the agoraphobia is began to instill in him before he left. The place becomes the monster. It is a story bookended by his time before and after living there.
I. White Flag | 2021
White Flag
HAVE ONE LOOK //
SINK THE WET HAND DOWN //
HOLD YOUR HEAD //
AND THE OLD MEN FROWN //
TWO OF THEM DANCING //
SIX OF THEM DROWN //
A WHITE FLAG IN YOUR MIND //
AND FELL THE KING'S CROWN.
II. I Remember Brick and Sand and Water | 2021
III. A Monster in My Home | 2021
A Monster in My Home
An empty house around me,
I swim through its halls like veins
swam with blood,
but it's cold
and only I keep it's heart beating.
The power is out.
The clocks have stopped.
There isn't a peep.
Not a sound.
No air through the vents--
only the lazy, mild scratch of my pen.
It echoes long,
as if into some deep, awful black,
so I sit on the ground,
the safety of the wall at my back.
Footsteps above,
a monster in my home.
I open my eyes to find walls made of bone.
It's coming closer.
I think it's quite near.
I have no god to thank
and no devils to fear.
It's coming closer.
I think it's quite near.
Never mind that.
It's already here.