Chapter 3

One day I remember having this conversation with Hadley, she was watching a documentary on Georgia O’Keefe and it gets to the scene where Georgia is painting the mural and I see her write something down in her notebook. This is what it said: “She paints like she’s trying to re-write history.” I love what she said when she spoke about heartbreak, when she was so heartbroken that she did not want to paint and when she found something and she would ask herself like she wouldn’t be sure who would want that. But she thought, you never know, someone else may find this animal skull to be as beautiful as I find it to be. Who knows what they might find.” Well, you do something similar, right? Yeah! I said. Well I think every artist does. I think all of us do. We just write or create what we find beautiful and hope “ Do I?’” She turns to me, looks at me. eyes wide and open. “You write like you’re trying to bring life to life,” she --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nakedpoetry/support