2025-07-29-Lunch Notes
I worry sometimes that writing poetry is unfriendly to the people around me. Every lover and friend will have to worry if they will show up in a poem after something hard or beautiful happens. They don’t consent to be bricked up in words. That 20 years from now someone is going to read your experiences and judge them, and as Francois Matarasso said “Life is hard enough without strangers making it harder.” And history has its way with poetry. But also, this is how I process my emotions. If you tangle yourself up with a poet this risk is there.
Vulnerability should never be held as a weakness. We have to be vulnerable, or we will never be able to be fully ourselves.
The afterplay is the play.