yesterday was world poetry day and I really don’t need a day to celebrate an art that connects me to this world filled with people reciting words but I want to and I want to tell you how in moments of despair and heartache and grief and jubilation and pleasure and steadiness and peace, someone wrote a poem about that exact moment, that exact feeling and it might have been thousands of miles away and two hundred years ago or it might be your contemporary, your friend who lives just up the block and they know you and your sorrow and your work and feeling this connection to other, knowing my pain and my joy, I still feel lonely but I know my loneliness is shared and it fuels my love for this life constantly.
Thank you to all the poets out there, published or not, your work is sacred 🌀
Slide 1: No Poems Today by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Slide 2: from Bluff by Danez Smith
Slide 4: A Poem is a Place by Isabelle Correa
Slide 6: To the Lover Who Left Me Flowers in a Pepsi Bottle, Apologizing for Having No Vase by Joseph Fasano
Slide 8: from Eggshells by Parm KC
Slide 10: The Great Valley of Myself by Jacqueline Suskin
Slide 12: Want by Joy Sullivan
Minca on film where we hiked to many waterfalls, got bitten by many bugs, trusted the local motorist to scale the mountain on the back of their bikes, tasted raw cacao & scoured the entire city for cerveza zero.
Many bucket list moments these past beautiful days!!! Grateful to my tour guide @savoy_oy to the beautiful city of Medellín and its bountiful flavors, people and views and por supuesto @badbunnypr
Now to the jungle ~
Sarah took my pic and I turned 35 and to celebrate 35 rotations around the sun I made sunshine salad. Find it on my substack at the link in bio :~)
@sawahburger 📷
