Compression: Jennifer Abercrombie
“I read somewhere that, in simple, compression is a pushing force. Anyone who has ever been in love with someone controlling or self-absorbed knows about compression, resulting in the reduction of one’s full mental or physical state. It’s enough ‘push’ to make one move. Likewise, the poem itself, scrawled on a piece of rolling paper when there is neither time nor room to recount everything that led up to her leaving is compressed, and then experiences combustion, literally burning up in fire and smoke. ” — Jennifer Abercrombie
