Hey Azra, was hoping you could help me out a bit. I know you love the lines from 'Perhaps Patagonia' by Kate Clanchy and was wondering if you could share with me your interpretation of the poem? When I read it, it doesn't feel like it's meant to be terribl

Sometimes when I read certain poetry I can’t analyse at all why it makes me feel the way that I do because it doesn’t actually always make sense. Some writers don’t make any sense to me in the way that words are put together to form a cohesive sentence which you can understand, sometimes in poetry, words are put together to just make you feel like you’ve been punched in the stomach. 

Things like Katie Fallandays and “I want to eat your sparrow, come here. I want to lick your sparrow claws, come here. I want to suck your fingers off, come here. I want to give you your history back.” There are lines in that piece which bring to my knees and more often than not, they’re the lines that don’t make any fucking sense! 

Emily O’ Neill: “The memory of eye teeth
in my shoulder. The print of his rushed thumb
on my wrist. Forgive my stumble.
All I know of falling is finding the ground.”

Poetry really is all that you make of it. You find things that other people don’t, and they see things that you can’t. Sorry it took me so long to answer your question but that quote for me ‘I meant skies, all empty aching blue, I meant years, I meant all of them with you.’ Is just about longing and want and seeing the stretch of the world in front of you and thinking that you want to spend it with just one someone.