January 31st 2022

So I said I was going to post on Sundays but so far I’ve only managed to post on Mondays. Hopefully, I’ll get it right next week.

Today I’ve uploaded a new poem which is a first draft and kind of a little rough (feedback is always appreciated). I was going to also upload a picture I drew over the weekend but there I had a look at it this morning and decided it needed a little more work before posting it.

I’ve got the beginnings of another poem that I was thinking of the other day so that might be the next thing I post here although it is still in the very early stages.

I guess I should explain the idea between the poem that I just posted. It’s working title is “Room” and like most of my poetry, it draws on the real world and my real world but I stretch it and usually expand it to fit the idea of what I want.

The start of this poem was me fixating on my suitcases in the corner of my room and thinking about “emotional baggage” (I know, like, I’m so clever for equating the two. Never ever been done before, ever) and that’s how this poem started.

The first half starts with this fixation on smaller things around the room which are everyday problems and then the second half of the poem jumps out into a kind of birds eye view of the person’s life and their place in it before going to this introspective view. The change is very sudden and jarring which is what I wanted but hopefully that comes across in an interesting way and not an annoying way.

I’m not going to discuss it too much because I like people to come up with their own conclusions but if you want to talk about it more then feel free to comment below.

That’s about it for now. I’ll be back next week with something else.

Stay safe, look out for each other and I’ll see you here next week.

• Rexolotl