Top Shelf
Top Shelf
born of anger, bred with anger
is it my nature to nurture
the gardens along the path
that leads to a place that is unknown
to me
how cluttered yet how bright
the liquor bottle that
becomes a vase
Notes
Notes
Below are some notes about this piece, including the thoughts and external inspirations that occurred during its creation.
Bear in mind, this is simply what I was thinking of when I wrote these poems and what they mean to me. If you interpreted them differently, that does not diminish how you felt as the reader nor the correctness/incorrectness of what you were thinking.
Top Shelf [2024] was an abstract prose poem about how we recycle used alcohol bottles into vases for flowers and plant propagation. It’s kind of beautiful how we use the vessel of something that is inherently poisonous to sustain another life.
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Below are some notes about this piece, including the thoughts and external inspirations that occurred during its creation.
Bear in mind, this is simply what I was thinking of when I wrote these poems and what they mean to me. If you interpreted them differently, that does not diminish how you felt as the reader nor the correctness/incorrectness of what you were thinking. Poetry is subjective, and so is being alive.
