Compressed Documentation of a performance wearing ice stilettos in West Oakland

Duration 43 minutes

STEP

She pours herself in
to slippers of glass
princess of modern
mistress of cool

water freezing fast
fits perfectly still
her ankle turning
her body burning

facing all standing
tall for the melting
shifts from side to side
as platforms subside

at last bare
skin to the ground
goddess unbound

~ Tamsin Smith