Being a cataloger, as often poets are, capturing various current states, all the while being “current” as a state of one’s body, my poetry has always worked through the inner and outer in this sense — some time-warp juncture of indexing and reflecting simultaneously. The poems in Witch Like Me delve into the power that comes from within and mortality as some inevitable shift in relations with the world. There are challenges present. And existential stirrings. We can only deliver that which comes through us, how the poem does. And “through us” gives us over to a knowledge sometimes concrete, sometimes as metaphor. We, as earth beings, we, as spiritual, navigate these complexities for understandings. As a mother, these poems have come to be a mapping for my daughter. As a victim, these poems have come to be healing. After some health mishaps writing unfolded through a wrestling with the state of the world in its ability to nurture, as well as be nurtured. The poems lean toward reflections on the experience of an altered perception of the “whole” and that of time. We listen. We take heed. We corral. And offer the poems back to the universe from which they originated.
Humans
- Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (author)
- Elæ Moss (artist)
Page count
50Keywords
Poetry, Visual Poetry, Dreams, Mind, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Motherhood, Family, Relationships, Trauma, Healing, Health, BodyPublication date
2020Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Digital DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Digital Chapbook SeriesWitch Like Me
About the Contributor(s)
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is a teacher, neighborhood activist and poet. She is the author of The World Exactly (forthcoming Cuneiform), Universal Fall Precautions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017), As Water Sounds (Bootstrap Press, 2014) and Palm to Pine (2011), as well as over a dozen small books including 88 Haiku, Against What Light, Room Service Calls, and What's Going On. Originally from New Orleans, she lives and writes in San Francisco and co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
Elæ Moss is a multimodal artist-researcher, curator, designer, and educator. Seeking Speculative Solidarities, they employ analog and digital media to investigate human, institutional and ecological systems and to iterate open source strategies for ecological and social change. Recent projects have shown at La Mama Galleria, EFA Project Space, STWST/Ars Electronica, Usdan Gallery, Judson Church, the Segal Center, SOHO20, Dixon Place, and the Exponential Festival, among others. Select publications include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Vestiges, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Transgender Narratives Anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, and Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Books include Ground, Blood Altas, Overview Effect, Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular, Bodies of Work, and The Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book and Guide. Moss is a Professor at Pratt Institute, and the developer / founder of the Operating System + Liminal Lab. More at: https://onlywhatican.net and https://theoperatingsystem.org.
