Like A Scorpion

by Batya MacAdam-Somer
Poetic Rendering of a Tenam Performance
November 2022

Ocean remnant

The structure remains

Keep it simple

No need for more complexity

The complexity is there

See it, witness it

We were swimming

Dissolved land

Creates life

What if you could witness a million years?

What if you could run your hands over each contour?

Hold the space

The literal space

Standing at the bottom of an ancient ocean

Roaming over pebbles from distant lands

What if you held poison inside of you?

What would it feel like to unleash it?

Would it define you?