Share your favorite lyric/ poem?
I obsess over music and when I discover a song I like, I will often listen to it on repeat for hours even days. So I’m thinking every once in a while I will share some lyrics I love.
My set “Preserved in Saline” features one of my favorite poems as the description. My best friend wrote it and when she sent it to me I was blown away by it. Mostly because she has a tendency to keep her creativity under wraps and I usually have to uncover what she’s up to.
I've done it again, stepped down into that place of sunken ships and glass bottles. Melting sand castles beneath my feet. Red blooms of brine that poison everything. Here I am preserved in saline.
This piece reminded me of myself instantly because I tend to be a bit of a troublemaker and I get myself into sticky situations more than I would like. My mother always called me Traviesa which more or less translates to troublemaker in Spanish. I’ve always been mischievous and I used to feel like the black sheep for it. Now I embrace it and I appreciate my odd ways for it’s what makes me well... me