Hi everyone,
I’m three days late but Happy New Year, it's 2023! I hope this first week has been gentle with you. I wish I felt more joyous but everything feels heavy, and it's felt that way for a while.
And the answer is I’m depressed, but what to do with that knowledge I don't know, though I feel like I should know, I’m lost. Though, what I do know is that it will pass ! And in the meantime, there's still poetry. So, I want to leave you with this quote by Ocean Vuong about what art (creativity) can do for the artist, and I think with the poems, the metaphors, it's my own landscape, dreamscape.
& here are my resolutions :) but it's poetry !
Songs of the week !
Monday
can we dream, undefeated, for a few moments more ?
Tuesday
is a breath. a grecian urn. a nightingale.
Wednesday
i am not you; quell the violence.
Thursday
Cathy & Heathcliff. Toxic!
Friday
weeping.
Saturday
i am windswept & waxing poetic. there will be no slow death.
Sunday
a New Year’s prayer is no more handed-down misery. nothing inside me needs forgiveness, i love.
Thank you for reading this week’s newsletter !
With love,
Phoenix
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p.s. love to Amy Winehouse & this song by Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser I’ve shared these before but the songs mean a lot to me and I just want to finish off 2022 holding them in this newsletter.