💌may '23, #3, feels like summer again!
Dear Reader, I hope this email finds you with a fresh coat of sunscreen.
pics from may ‘22 ! so much has happened since last spring/summer and i feel like i’ve grown/lost/gained saurrrr much since then. i still have a bumpy face and the squirrels still evade my chin scritches.
last year, i wrote some poems about self-care, aging, recovery, the passage of time, you know, the typical poet things, and i’ve been wanting to write about that again. i guess it’s just this time of year, idk! on with my three for the week before i keep you here all weekend:
1️⃣ a kind of not really poem
skipping out on escapril was a good choice, and unless next year’s a stunner, i will likely not be doing the challenge again unless to collab! while many of my friends have shared they’re in burnout recovery because of writing a poem every day (it was tough the few years i did it!)
i’ve settled into a steady groove of writing poems only in workshops—which happen pretty much every week give or take, so it’s a lot of poems anyway!— it’s nice because i get through them SO quick. i feel like a big problem i had last year post-escapril pre-poetry orchard was i’d spend days if not weeks slaving over a poem trying to be happy with it?
with workshops, in under 2 hours’ time, i fill myself with inspiration, pick other poets’ brains, and with the fuel from what’s now rolling around in my own brain i have a poem, i get to perform it out loud to people, and i hear nice feedback! if you haven’t attended a Poetry Orchard workshop recently or at all, please please sign up for maria’s workshop tomorrow! sign ups close hour of the workshop, so you have time!
this poem is called palayok shards, written in Dottie x Enfys x AWG workshop.