i
‘I’ by saying, for instance, ‘I know myself’
‘I see nothing without seeing the letter written into it’
‘I am the dot beneath the letter’
‘I was a hidden treasure, I desired to be known’ ‘
I die before you die; death before death.’
Bet you did not know that there are over four hundred sun sea king acrobats nestled over there.
You used to do somersaults along it, trying to exorcise us.

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1913 – Otto Witte, an acrobat, is purportedly crowned King of Albania.

Todays Calls is part of the Phone Works series by Christof Migone. Website design by Endless Commons. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.