Shivanee Ramlochan
Dear Andre, I find it is the unknowing.
I'm suspicious of myself when I think I have a poem figured out before I write it. Usually, the page (or computer screen) humbles me -- I start out intending to write a poem about a grandmother, for example, and what emerges is a ghazal to green dhal. The unknowing teaches me every time I write a poem. It's exciting, unexpected, and fun, and I'm grateful for it! xx
I'm suspicious of myself when I think I have a poem figured out before I write it. Usually, the page (or computer screen) humbles me -- I start out intending to write a poem about a grandmother, for example, and what emerges is a ghazal to green dhal. The unknowing teaches me every time I write a poem. It's exciting, unexpected, and fun, and I'm grateful for it! xx
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