I resonate strongly with what's written here, Faye. I heard myself say (see? it happens with verbal utterances as well), "Damn straight!" after I read the first stanza/sentence.
I love how you play with paradox, seeing and unseeing...
"Sensation drips
red ink through pen
without mind mediating"
Fantastically written!
Have you heard of Matt Cardin? His work goes pretty deep into this mysterious source of our words. (And indeed, of everything we do, of everything there is...but there's something about writing that highlights a particular aspect of this strange and incredible darkness from where all things seem to spring forth miraculously.) Matt is quite an eloquent conduit himself. Here's a great piece of his I just read: https://www.livingdark.net/p/writers-embrace-the-unknown
Thank you Mike! Damn straight! I tend to feel that every poem written (I like how you said "what's written" as opposed to "what you wrote," so precise) is an exploration or paradox. An endlessly curious contemplation, that. How open is the channel? What is the relationship between mind and muse?
And yes, I have heard of Matt Cardin! I deeply resonated with his explorations of the daemon muse - for me it's eros, that inner other creative force. I shall go check that piece out. Thank you for sharing.
I resonate strongly with what's written here, Faye. I heard myself say (see? it happens with verbal utterances as well), "Damn straight!" after I read the first stanza/sentence.
I love how you play with paradox, seeing and unseeing...
"Sensation drips
red ink through pen
without mind mediating"
Fantastically written!
Have you heard of Matt Cardin? His work goes pretty deep into this mysterious source of our words. (And indeed, of everything we do, of everything there is...but there's something about writing that highlights a particular aspect of this strange and incredible darkness from where all things seem to spring forth miraculously.) Matt is quite an eloquent conduit himself. Here's a great piece of his I just read: https://www.livingdark.net/p/writers-embrace-the-unknown
Thank you Mike! Damn straight! I tend to feel that every poem written (I like how you said "what's written" as opposed to "what you wrote," so precise) is an exploration or paradox. An endlessly curious contemplation, that. How open is the channel? What is the relationship between mind and muse?
And yes, I have heard of Matt Cardin! I deeply resonated with his explorations of the daemon muse - for me it's eros, that inner other creative force. I shall go check that piece out. Thank you for sharing.