sitting in kashmir, by chance, felt touched by
sections of the poem, let others pass by and liked it
overall. then read the interesting back and forth and
my thoughts-
sometimes we have clear access to a feeling, we feel
grateful almost for that clarity and out of that we
write? with repitition, with different roads we try
and get at that clear- ish thing we feel?
does a poem need to have one centre, that the text
illuminates?
can it run roughly up and down slopes, ( ronnie put it
very nicely about farahs poem).?
for me, i found the food bit a bit pressing- we have
wasted food too often, too easily. i am in kashmir
right now, but in srinagar far enough ( mentally) from
the affected areas. guilt is there- that i wear warm
clothes- and somewhere not very far away, children
would live had they these warm clothes perhaps. this
is in the simplest way, a truth. but we also have
enough immunisation to be able to carry on, to not
fold up on hearing of other peoples catastrophe- to
not feel it enough, therefore.
how to write something that gets at this feeling? that
scratches your skin.
i found the first part moving- about the cold-
( since i felt exactly the same thing, and did not
explore it so keenly even in my mind- her text awoke
me to what my thought might have meant)i think i would
have liked it regardless.
the food- the food. too easy, to waste, how to tell
that you feel f'd up this time when you waste? all my
childhoods - most of our childhoods- we were told-
people are going hungry and it did not resonate.
that feeling of knowing, but not really knowing- stays
with me and i find it difficult to connect- even
thought i understand you might have felt this way.
my interest might be in how my compassion comes and
dries up too and i am distracted. does it help to
kuredo ( not even a hindi word) such feeling?
the child- i liked that attempt at accessing loss
through a loss you have not even quite felt. but more-
scratch my skin some more with it?
( perhaps it is that we who are older- see what is
dulled in us as senses, more clearly, and feel that
access to those things has to be more worked at- then
the language reaches that which hurts ? with our
language we try and make our feelings go further?
what have your peers felt about this piece? )
a language to express an empathy which perhaps has to
be simple and direct- what kind of language will do
that?
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