Life Could Be What It Is Right Now

Abstract

Intimacy is at the center of my poetics. My thesis is the journey of my speaker leaning into the intimacy that art and writing provides in order to accept the gift of darkness. Although a lot of the content in my collection has an underlying tone of trauma and darkness, my speaker persists through their writing and through the beauty that their writing forges. My speaker takes the destruction caused from intimacy and turns it into something mystical, something that offers solace.