New (to you) Poem!
At DIAGRAM. Just reading the rest of the issue over my lunch break, but I can already see I'm in good company.
It's good to have a home for that one. I feel like its publication brings even more solid, public closure to the chapter it represents for me. And it was definitely a cathartic piece to write in the first place. Like a gift from my psyche, reassurance - though far from therapy. I rarely get good poems out of writing therapy (which is why I journal to feel better). I think of it more an assertion of selfhood and of toiling against the cultural assumption that being alone, isolated and vulnerable is a bad place and that those moments of aloneness should be sped through with haste. Lest we forget, poems can and should come out of any moment.
It's good to have a home for that one. I feel like its publication brings even more solid, public closure to the chapter it represents for me. And it was definitely a cathartic piece to write in the first place. Like a gift from my psyche, reassurance - though far from therapy. I rarely get good poems out of writing therapy (which is why I journal to feel better). I think of it more an assertion of selfhood and of toiling against the cultural assumption that being alone, isolated and vulnerable is a bad place and that those moments of aloneness should be sped through with haste. Lest we forget, poems can and should come out of any moment.
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