Sit where the light can find you. Put one hand flat on your sternum and feel the heat of your own palm through the shirt. The air today is thick — let it be thick. Tha do ghualainn a' cumail an latha — your shoulders are holding the day, up near your ears where fear lives when it has nowhere to go. Let them drop. Just an inch. That inch is the whole practice. You are an animal in a season, and the season does not require your panic to continue.
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Salon im Grünen
„get out of the neocortex“
eine individuelle körperliche Erfahrung durch Bewegung, Gedichte und Elektroakustik.
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Embodiment is what is seen
reaching the bones.

No insight above.
No life below.

Seeing and form
no longer separate events.

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Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity

In this post I'd like to utilize my experience with freediving as an excuse to talk about a bunch of seemingly contrasting qualities and emotions, which together — I feel — illustrate some deeper aspects of experiencing humanity. For me, at least, freediving has turned out a surprisingly useful tool in this

Traces Of Humanity

New at Last Grotto: "Feral" by Jacob Friesenhahn

A short, visceral poem that explores the primal nature of human attraction through the sense of smell. The poem traces how scent operates below conscious thought—"an odor that offends / as you are attracted"—revealing the tension between civilized disgust and animal desire. The body knows before the mind decides.

We are never far from the wild.

Published here for the first time. From Jacob Friesenhahn's collection The Prayer of the Mantis (Kelsay Books, 2025).

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Feral

We are never far from the wild.

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