Bailey Brunick / Solitude

Solitude

Bailey Brunick

1. To make him love you: bathe in plantain root & blood orange peels on the eve of the full moon. Do not bathe for 6 days & every night try your hardest not to dream of him.

2. Flesh out a line between thought & body. Scrub your skin raw until clean has no smell.

3. If you dream of him: mix bone soup & clove. Let it sit for 12 hours. Meantime, drown (a stone, a tooth) for every man you ever loved.

4. Find the point where sound ends & nothing begins. Spread it out thin until you can touch the difference.

5. To be loved: let go of yourself, sit in darkness until you can separate the seconds.

6. To confront the silence is to say leave the space, take the word. To confront it is to say that the self (even in those seconds) is never enough.