kaberett | (Reply)

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The handwave I can give without getting too much into the stuff that feels awkward/difficult to talk about in public until I've sorted it out some more goes: there is a particular flesh-and-blood person who just by existing in my life encourages me to look at the world differently/do serious self-reflection/think hard about how I want to communicate, and what I want to communicate about. And so I have recently ended up writing quite a lot of poem "about" them, except it's... in many cases only tangentially about them, or about the idea of them, more than it about them-as-person; and it's work that I don't expect them to ever particularly like or appreciate (one of the many soubriquets I apply to this particular person is My Unpoetical Lover). It's not that we talk about my poetry or art, particularly, but we do have conversations about communication and how I view the world, which tends to Spark Stuff; but most of what I've written about them since mid-January has been completely in the absence of any communication with them.

... erm, that got quite tangled; hopefully it is at this point clear why I am after having a discussion, heh!

Thank you so much for contributing! As and when I've actually sorted my thoughts out and written them up coherently I'll try to remember to chuck a link your way :-)