Thanks for taking us for a ride-along on your cycle, haha! It's an honor. Rage and tears and exhilaration; what a journey!
Love the depiction of the creative process here. It really does cost something, doesn't it, to fully open the channel. And fasting (from a variety of things) really can bring on that clarity in my experience. Purify the body!
"She hears whispered curses escape with her breath and then sucks them back in to metabolize the poison in her own body..." Lots of feels here about women editing themselves to keep the peace, and the self-violence of that self-silencing. Telling that it comes out anyway. Emotional truth follows the laws of conservation of matter and energy like everything else. Love the fluorescent tears.
It almost feels like it could be a loose adaptation of "Birthing." Basically an overwhelmed mother of a 2yo gradually becomes a werewolf (or weredog), and learns to embrace her cravings for freedom and violence and meat and blood and dirt, which she always had to suppress or hide from herself and her oblivious husband and polite society. By the end she's rediscovered her creative practice, reviving a part of herself she worried had died.
Kitchari [crying, heart rending, arms wanting to hold someone soft and still their cries]
<3
Wait, was this a request for the witch’s kitchari recipe? In addition to being a poetic response to the post, of course…
Of course! Always new kitchari healing recipes <3
So beautiful! Loved reading this, and I particularly love the "salt and iron" language!
Thank you! It’s awesome to hear that from someone who’s writing I like, too.
Thanks for taking us for a ride-along on your cycle, haha! It's an honor. Rage and tears and exhilaration; what a journey!
Love the depiction of the creative process here. It really does cost something, doesn't it, to fully open the channel. And fasting (from a variety of things) really can bring on that clarity in my experience. Purify the body!
"She hears whispered curses escape with her breath and then sucks them back in to metabolize the poison in her own body..." Lots of feels here about women editing themselves to keep the peace, and the self-violence of that self-silencing. Telling that it comes out anyway. Emotional truth follows the laws of conservation of matter and energy like everything else. Love the fluorescent tears.
Have you seen Nightbitch starring Amy Adams?
No but you’re the latest of a handful of folks to recommend it to me. What brings it to mind?
It almost feels like it could be a loose adaptation of "Birthing." Basically an overwhelmed mother of a 2yo gradually becomes a werewolf (or weredog), and learns to embrace her cravings for freedom and violence and meat and blood and dirt, which she always had to suppress or hide from herself and her oblivious husband and polite society. By the end she's rediscovered her creative practice, reviving a part of herself she worried had died.
Oh God I forgot to say SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️
fuuucking hell. xx
Yes. Exactly right. 😂 Thanks for feeling it with me.