Supernova is Sad

Written in November, 2020, performed during a night of intimate readings in a performance of the same name at The Crypt Gallery, April 2023.

Kate Howe reads to an intimate audience late at night inside the Crypt under St. Pancras church. 12 of us, 536 ambient souls buried on the premises, and 90 minutes of intimacies shared.

The supernova on the second floor is sad.

“but it hurts” he said

And lifted up his bruised and purple

“where?” I asked

The round wet of his gaze rotated slowly to lock onto …