You know, when I first started reading your writings I tried to approach your poetry from a critical point of view. I learned immediately that was impossible. You involve all the senses, but especially the human heart. Your ability to draw an emotional response to words, and how they are placed and treated, is unmatched. I've read a lot of classics, a lot of beat and modern poetry, and you, you Selene Skye, stand on your own as the most unique voice to reinterpret not just what poetry is, but what language is an how we relate to it.
One day, I have no doubt, you will be an icon. To many of us, you already are.
You speak to the wild nature in all of us, you speak to our origins, and reawaken something essential to our components as human beings. Like Lily said, you are magic.
Why oh why do they try to force beauty into a mold? Define it with shackles and beat that which cannot subject into submission? And I don't just mean the "they" we usually think of throughout life (family, teachers, authorities, etc). But even those who supposedly "bleed like us", afraid to expose their wounds, or worse, to gaze upon ours. Cafe dwellers hurting other dwellers, trying to divine that wild flavor that settles on their tongues when they attempt to read us. If only we could see the beauty in the natural, uncultivated flow that pours from our souls.
Thank you, dovely... for trying to teach us through your undomesticated beauty.
'bandage the weeping captivation of a midnight audience
for we bleed better than any other'
Such an astonishing poem and so many lines I loved particularly those I've highlighted above, that sense of the wild linked with the fairytale with lifeblood and I loved that sense of 'hidden' something to seek out, something to search for. What is so captivating about your work is the visual quality of the metaphors, always unexpected, always refined. I like to read your poems a few times before I review as I can't absorb all the detail/emotion at once, I need to take little sips at a time, but this is breathtaking, quite heavenly in fact!