PhD in Folklore and 19th Century British Literature / Writer / Fond of Faerie Tales, Synchronicities, and the Gothic Fantastic
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ALT Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry, right? They have a life to live, and they're not that concerned with Allen Ginsberg's poems or anybody's poems! Until... Their father dies, they go to a funeral, you lose a child,
ALT somebody breaks your heart, they don't love you anymore. And all of a sudden, you're desperate for making sense out of this life. "Has anybody ever felt this bad before? How did they come out of this cloud?"
ALT Or the inverse—something great. You meet somebody and your heart explodes! You love them so much you can't even see straight! You know, you're dizzy! "Did anybody feel like this before? What is happening to me?"
ALT And that's when art's not a luxury, it's a sustenance. You need it.
ALT Field Guide Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake, up to my neck in that most precious element of all, I found a pale-gray, curled-upwards pigeon feather floating on the tension of the water at the very instant when a dragonfly, like a blue-green iridescent bobby pin, hovered over it, then lit, and rested. That’s all. I mention this in the same way that I fold the corner of a page in certain library books, so that the next reader will know where to look for the good parts. —Tony Hoagland
