I am a woman with muted desires who profits off of claiming to be quiet; So, when Toni Morrison said "The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from every day traffic (Paradise); and Tye Jiles said "Sometimes we are afraid to be women, we wrap up our feelings and bind them in futuristic expectations [...] but in the quiet moments, we just long to be genuinely heard (Revealing layers); and when Rupi Kaur said "You were afraid of my voice I decided to be afraid of it too" (Milk and honey) I thoroughly understand.
At some point in life you will turn to the arts for deeper understanding of the 'how's' and 'why's' of your being; you will seek to lose (and find) yourself in written words, and in poems, and in proses.
Therefore, when Franz Kafka said "I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something unexplainable, to tell about something I can only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones [Letters to Milena] to me this was everything... even though it meant nothing.
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Quiet women and other myths: A collection of musings
PoetryI wouldn't go so far as to call this poetry (which would imply that *I* am a poet), but I can safely call this a collection of musings, thoughts and sometimes badly strung up words about anything and everything.
