Communidad de Uno

By Lindi Dedek

At the beginning
there was a plot, 
  abandoned snake park past unused cement factory
one-person tent like a grave
 
glacial air
Catholic wish for dream
the answer is always love
 
twenty years later, adobe house, stone-cold floor
terracotta colors
factory-line eatery dotted by photos of one person in his tent
community life should be comfortable 
 
but not that much
 
I dig into rice and beans
echo the gratitude for life, for possibility of together, for love across religion
and chew

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Twinning

By Lindi Dedek

my day-old friend Tania puts a tea bag on her ear as jewel
she laughs bumps her head
our two Slavic faces grin till oblivion
a tea break from beer to say we dance heavy
 
yesterday a twin man broke in next door
while I showered loudly
 
 the screams muted by my radio
I heard two sisters laugh and fight for a toy
 
except this time the twin man came in with a knife
no idea where he was and what was he doing
 
his twin brother was in the mountains they took him too
 
the two kids hid in our house 
slurped a bowl of pasta
who called the police I asked
 
      that’s how I met the twin friend Tania
   I followed her to the woods
 
we danced motionless

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​Lindi Dedek is a queer emerging poet, artist and clown-in-becoming from Czechia, based in Berlin. Besides poetry, they work mostly with moving images, analog film and site-specific performance. Their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Stadtsprachen, Aji Magazine, filling Station and Tint Journal. They love black tea and ballet, and believe in free Palestine.