Okay, "There She Is" triggered my whole essay tonight - Clove Cigarettes and Modest Mouse!! Mee too! Although I couldn't keep up with the cloves and had to switch to American Spirits, the Blue Box. But that whole poem made me super sentimental about that time in my life. And the poem "Tricks" - My goodness, lady, I cried at the end - "Back off buddy" - so much said so beautifully in that poem, so much said that I needed to hear this week - permission to be tender and tough. I loved these. And the title of the post should be the name of a band or something - just awesome.
Serra, you're a poet! That Orpheus poem! Did you get to read it aloud in class? More myths please! "Your lyre is heavy in your hand," and I'm in. At the end of "There She Is" I felt a shiver at your different selves hanging out together, and also remembered the day I heard your guitar noises turn into a song. I was used to hearing you noodling, loved that you were exploring, and then one day... there was a melody! It was (suddenly) a song! I love how I get to see both those selves, the one clacking away at the vintage typewriter, and the one now with a smoothly almost silent keyboard (but still with green walls!). I smiled at your bitchy self. She's good to have around. (how do I get out of a bad mood? Watch a documentary on a creative process gone awry. "Shirkers!) Your word association with Mina reminded me that in the early dark hours half-awake I kept saying to myself, "Rattletrap Rhinestone, rattletrap rhinestone" so I'd remember my dreams.
Okay, "There She Is" triggered my whole essay tonight - Clove Cigarettes and Modest Mouse!! Mee too! Although I couldn't keep up with the cloves and had to switch to American Spirits, the Blue Box. But that whole poem made me super sentimental about that time in my life. And the poem "Tricks" - My goodness, lady, I cried at the end - "Back off buddy" - so much said so beautifully in that poem, so much said that I needed to hear this week - permission to be tender and tough. I loved these. And the title of the post should be the name of a band or something - just awesome.
Sounds like you need to be a little bitchy too! I look forward to reading your latest one.
I do. I really do.
Serra, you're a poet! That Orpheus poem! Did you get to read it aloud in class? More myths please! "Your lyre is heavy in your hand," and I'm in. At the end of "There She Is" I felt a shiver at your different selves hanging out together, and also remembered the day I heard your guitar noises turn into a song. I was used to hearing you noodling, loved that you were exploring, and then one day... there was a melody! It was (suddenly) a song! I love how I get to see both those selves, the one clacking away at the vintage typewriter, and the one now with a smoothly almost silent keyboard (but still with green walls!). I smiled at your bitchy self. She's good to have around. (how do I get out of a bad mood? Watch a documentary on a creative process gone awry. "Shirkers!) Your word association with Mina reminded me that in the early dark hours half-awake I kept saying to myself, "Rattletrap Rhinestone, rattletrap rhinestone" so I'd remember my dreams.
Ooh I want to know more about rattletrap rhinestone!