whispered lineage

“Aquamarine” and “Who Asked?” in Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Issue 81: “Lying Flat”: https://vvpoetry.com/2025/01/12/issue-81/

On the poems:

“loosely inspired by the East Asian lyric traditions of the epigrammatic expression of often Buddhist-inspired reflection on the ‘great matters of life and death’: a raw grappling with impermanence, suffering, and emptiness (psychological and metaphysical), often in a gestural spontaneity marked by both humour and pathos. Aquamarine foregrounds a crepuscular renunciation towards death, figured nocturnally, against the illusory non-sense of human striving in life’s daylight. Who Asked? soliloquizes a radical relativity of experience over a perspective of the multiple lives of the self, whereby each becomes equally as significant, and ‘meaning-free’, as another.”