Hi!
When I was popping in to a high profile home good store set in lower east side Manhattan last August, my BeReal notification popped up at the same time I was at the counter to buy the store branded lighter (keeping purchases and weight light; keeping what I could with me) and in the whirl noticed an open-faced Anne Sexton staring, too. I asked who was reading, and the easy chic, black slip dressed woman held it in a fan, cover out, proud to say, “me!” I mentioned my Completed Poems collection at home and mentally added the slim transformations to my too-long-for-comp reading list. We snapped the BeReal together, and I’m still happy for the interaction, only after leaving and still now do I wish I had asked her how Anne arrived to her. I ordered the book online from Books are Magic directly when I got home in Austin using a gift-card a sweet friend had pre-gifted to me for my birthday before take off. Since she arrived to me, I saved the read for later needs on later nights.
Thank you for supporting me, and my work, and my persisting need to consume poetry.
*This audio also features my study on Anne Carson and my own personal processing notes. 🤍
I’m hard resetting as a person and on my editorial calendar, again! Spring took off and March left my head spinning too long to feel ready to send the longer format pieces I’m editing on my experiences breaking my boot at the Austin Music Awards and keeping my SX Spicy Ketchup level. I’m practicing being much softer with myself in my approach to this ongoing work now as daily as I can stay in it, and soft when I’m missing, moving, and shifting my micro deadlines in response to active personal needs requiring a renewal of personal vows in self care too.
In this audio reading, I lead with my study on Anne Carson and mentioned her works Float, Autobiography of Red, Plainwater, Fragments of Sappho, Eros the Bittersweet, and The Beauty of the Husband, which I wanted to read on Monday to cover completely … … … before taking my time to air out yesterday to understanding I still had other work to process before I could take on new.
Still considering transformations, from August to February to my Now, and my own looping KNEE SONG.
Frankly, my notes for blog X.0 (lost count) have been flourishing on this path for my last six months post-employment, and I’m dead serious committed to my blog work again, holding tight to center my long term goals for as long as the work takes. This summer I will be taking time away from my live music centered work to re-enter my BODY work, and re-piecing my body up til now.
I want to hold all this closer to my chest a little longer for myself, for later reading.
I’m writing,
🤍 Colore
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