💌march '23, #2, curating
Dear Reader, I hope this email finds you curating your newest mood playlist.
I need new music in my ears! Stat! I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s complete collection playlist on Spotify NON-STOP because of Certain Workshops I’ve attended recently (blossom, i have beef with you. a stew just for us 🥰🍽️🍲🍽️🥰)… so anyway, reader, if you happen to to be int he middle of curating your latest mood playlist, please share? i think i’ve given ms. swift enough pennies from streams by now hahahahaha
anyways! big three with a pinky promise for a Wednesday newsletter, because i missed last saturday, and if my numbers fall behind my brain will have bad things to say about it and nobody wants that.
1️⃣ introducing my poetic form, the blood atlas!
A blood atlas consists of 3 columns, each their own poem, enriching the other 2.
Consider 2 people, places, things, feelings, whatever else that’s played a part in shaping you. you know your own multitudes better than anyone else.
The first column will be written about 1 of the 2 things that shape you, left-aligned text.
The second column will be about yourself, center-aligned text.
The third column will be about the second thing that shaped you, right-aligned text.
The line length of the first column & the third column mirror each other – if your first column has a sestet then a quatrain, your 3rd column will have a sestet then a quatrain.
No line length rules for the second column.
A blood atlas is read left column – right column – center column.
here is my very first blood atlas, i guess i’ll just call it “blood atlas” in the same way jericho brown named the first duplex “duplex” ?
i would be such a horrible person to interview about the meanings of my poems, lol! i dunno