Ooh, I finally got a minute to sit with this poem, and it's so incredibly powerful. "If a wild girl emerges from the bathroom a self- / Made woman she hates but who is desired she has proved herself a woman." I love that! Also: "as distant and difficult / As any country would let a woman artist be distant and difficult." Cheers to being women with two minds and lives difficult but wanted.
Thank you, Kristin, for the time you spent with this poem. I'm so happy these lines resonated with you. And yes, cheers to being these women, willing our lives in directions expected and un-so.
Ooh, I finally got a minute to sit with this poem, and it's so incredibly powerful. "If a wild girl emerges from the bathroom a self- / Made woman she hates but who is desired she has proved herself a woman." I love that! Also: "as distant and difficult / As any country would let a woman artist be distant and difficult." Cheers to being women with two minds and lives difficult but wanted.
Thank you, Kristin, for the time you spent with this poem. I'm so happy these lines resonated with you. And yes, cheers to being these women, willing our lives in directions expected and un-so.
Always such a mysterious pleasure to read.
Aw, Laura! Thank you, for reading and for leaving a trace here. Until soon.