Status Updates From Orlando

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. While one drowns us the other gnaws us.

If we survive the teeth, we succumb to the waves. 🫨

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“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”