ABseas

Martha Aroha Челoк

“and i was already on my way to being a true freak because i knew i would always choose to go where my blood beats: in any and all directions” 

— bell hooks

the first complex organism in the world was Algaeic, 

anaerobic amoebae

in Blood, the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium combine in roughly the same proportions as sea water

one day, a group of Cells aggregated into a slug-like mass

now look at you

look at how you are scribbling 

when before you was just scratching the surface

another hypothesis: when the first organism divided, the Daughter cells failed to separate, resulting in a conglomeration of identical cells in one multicellular organism,

people who would yield to the first softness in a mute and absurd cosmos

cheek-to-cheek with sedimented rock,

life is just a dud 

in the water (daughter), 

carry the pail of it

 

Martha Aroha Чeлoк is an emerging poet. Published by the London Wildlife Trust and takahē magazine, they are interested in how ecopoetics responds to human anxieties, including (dis)ability, growing pains, identity and belonging. They live with takiwātanga and aroreretini (autism and ADHD), and owe their reo and ao Māori to the London whānau, Ngāti Rānana.