Free Homing Rally for Tressing Motions

Last night we celebrated the launch of Imane Boukaila’s gorgeous debut collection, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes. Please support Imane and Multiverse by ordering several copies!

After a brilliant braided performance of the book by four poets, Imane led everyone (audience included) in a “free homing rally” of collaborative writing. In just seven minutes, this is the poem that was improvisationally tressed in the Zoom chat:

Free Homing Rally for Tressing Motions


Trouting timing trials streams 
Trouting timing trials streams 
Trouting timing trials streams

Rocking fin
		it would be that

Trout music, trout rock

Sweet seeping minds omnivoraciously opal

Still still still dreaming

baiting me I will bite:

what color is the tressing?

roaming
		sitting on a rock
					midway OMG

O o o seeping 		birding

Eternity midway again

Rocking braided iridescence

foaming

Mid trips listening mid-

bashing
		breaching
				slipping 

Humming still still still still then
					splashing

Glass trout rock
(birding hum)

Trailing time tressing stress momentous

cold color colder, still

trout tilt time

				Glass trout rock
Birding him

Silt tressing light to indigo humming 
bird 
singing that song you love:

“The Monks Washing Their Robes” 

Glass traps lost in trouts’ mouths

streaming, streaming, streaming 

and it touches me deeply

wired washing machines 
humming humming humming 

				Trout fish tongues

tasteful minds thinking ticklish thoughts 

A school of monkeys 

Light sounds lift touches suddenly at a distance 

massive masses moving away seamlessly, almost

		instantly: or or or 

wind moved through us like a school

sound ro sounding light 

tails spinning clock hands
				Tilt time trout 

schooling fishing always wishing 
about and around me 

Timing trials will they ever stream what that felt like?

		it would be that

				Tilt glass time
streams from and within me

it was time
		when the back felt that 

timing trouts trialing streams trilling thoughts 

rainbow trout, splash-tilting trout

leaking the site 
				Light glass rock

Fast past stressing stratified mad blasts

rainbow seeking the light 

Timing trouting trials streams 
back to the crooked earth

				Tilt glass rock
down to the crooked water

when the gills tilted me utterly 

washing motions streaming beaming meaning 

trouting and strouting stresses answer wake up

		it would be that 

Time tilts ticks stills 
		color and light inside time 
streaming
tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow 

tilt of time to trouting trials timing streams 

darting rhythmically around through the rocks 
at my window 
		til there was only flooded moods

		it would be that 

tiltiing time, till-o-clock, something new 

Shook

		it would be that 

And tomorrow usually uncovering

				Tilt glass shock

that which could doubt doubting 

Feet streaming our trails 
		spilled the minute where it is 
trueing 
		hour hour honoring 

Tip tip toed to the tempo
		hip hip hopping 

Moon and kale and no clock

				Tilt time up 
repeating, timing 

scales rainbow the air 

the time turns clack 

hard hour on rock 
				Trout scales rock
				Light scales clock