“This is the morning we find cruelty. The morning we find the lost metal. You ask what I want. I zip my coat against the violence of the question mark. You want to melt something. Do it. Give me the sting, sugar. I deserve it. Think you’re winning, think you’ve got the stone house on my glass foot? The morning stinks with ripening. Here is what I want. Cut my skin. Nick the red skeins that don’t sing your name anymore.”
One of the amazing poems from Lauren Eggert-Crowe’s latest zine, which you can buy for a mere $3.The whole zine is incredible. Lauren is a flamethrower. She writes urgently, with a lulling, succulent pulse that makes me want to cry or howl or do shots with the sun. Her poetry is a mercenary in a war-torn country of the heart. Go buy a copy right now!
In other news, my latest Hook Up column at AfterEllen is up, in case you missed it. This week was dealing with a lack of libido and how to come out as a bisexual polyamorous female. As always, send your dating questions to askthehookup@gmail.com.
And one last question: What do you do when you’re feeling uncreative, but want to be? How do you break the spell, basically.
::BLUSHES::: Wow, thank you so so so much!!!!
re: final creativity question: i try to do something that technically *creates* but doesn’t rely on actual creativity, ie cook something that doesn’t require new thought or ideas, plant things, put a new coat of paint on something, etc, and sometimes that gets things moving again past the simple act of mixing things in a pan or digging a hole, etc…sometimes it works.
Good ideas, Erica! I will go forth and dig a hole right now. Actually, the cooking suggestion I’ve found to be helpful. There’s something immensely satisfying about cooking, even though we rarely celebrate that.
don’t question your art too much. just write even if you don’t think it’s very good or if you don’t “feel” like writing.
I really like Erica’s suggestion. I feel like I do that a lot too. I also sometimes just try to slog through the uncreative feelings and tell myself I’m doing good work anyway. I’ll have writing dates that will seem completely *off* and unproductive, but at least I’m getting words down. A lot of times it’s also as simple as choosing my outfit really carefully, because there’s creativity in that too.