Writing PRACTICE

My writing conceives a greater compassion for the entirety of that which we belong to.

A subtle shifting arc of constellations of quotidian and symbolic imagery, my written compositions are built on archetypes resonant with folktales and folksongs. I see the poet as a pilgrim traveling a long path of changing circumstances: a disciple to the act of devotion itself. 

Seeking the abundant peace that arises from the power of observation, my written work investigates rites of passage nested in the textures and repeated resonances of daily life. Filled with musical syncopations and physical sensations, my poems fall freely into complex concepts, with the reader remaining tethered in the harness of the witness. As a writer, I seek to stabilize, destabilize, and re-stabilize the reader, to join them in their private world while remaining a natural force outside their control and comfort. Often, floating in equanimity is the extent of the volta. There is no rhetorical shift, only a gentle, insistent urging toward acknowledgment and assent.

I am invested in the relevance of cosmovision, a framework for conceptualizing and understanding the inter-relationships and counterbalances of a shared universe. My poems encourage acceptance as the sublime attitude, steady, conscious realization of life’s transcendence as the only basis for wisdom and freedom. I write about the experiences of the perceived individual, intersecting with all of the other trajectories of bodies and matter. I reveal gravitation forces and adjacencies that invite interpretations not unlike astrological views. I write of spinning in motions of our own, within greater orbits of cosmic activities; like heavenly bodies, rotating in a moving sky, swiftly turning planets.

My writing practice has been informed by other interdisciplinary creatives such as Hilma af Klint, Remedios Varo, Patience Grey, Lee Bontecou, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Shirin Neshat and Hildegard of Bingen, women whose work embodies an ecstatic visionary experience, especially of darkness.