Part of LitehousePride - supporting the exophonic LGBTQ+ writers and poets and their contribution to the literary world.
I've built the walls of my house
With black paper and ink
One day a blind bird knocked on my door
And with his tongue touching the floor
It asked me for something to drink
I took him to the sink
Filled it up with my blood
"I should have told you first
There is no water here
In order to kill my thirst
I have to keep it dry
So this house won't fall apart"
. . .
The bird aimed to the sky
And just before I disappeared on his wings
He said staring to my empty veins
Drinking sip by sip:
"As these walls, so your pain
The darker it gets
The harder it is to R.I.P."
N▲N▼ (reads: Nany) is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist based in Lisbon who uses her musicality to create provocative and relentless narratives. Her poem ‘Home Sick Home’ is how she lives queerly in neurodivengency. Master on the violin, her sound is based on the ancestral music from the Northeast of Brazil, her homeland. N▲N▼ processes the poetry in that music to propose answers to existential questions such as “What was the first time I realized I was black?” or “How did I learn to fight for my body?”. She published a book in Brazil in 2009, at 17 years old, called “As Extravagancias da Insônia.” Her writings has the same identity as her music: cathartic and abyssal.
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