Even If Its Destiny Is Already Ashes
Gill, like many of us, finds magic and healing through the process of loving. In these poems, love helps us navigate our contemporary world the nine to five work week, the price of gas, domestic chores, the appearance of gray hair, struggles with the healthcare system and with social media, and how it all informs or questions her sense of spirituality
Madison Gill
@madg_ill · 4:35
If poetry is the arrow and meaning is the target, this poem hits closest to center for me. Now, the beginning is somewhat literal because I wrote this poem on a particularly anxious morning and I remember hearing the birds outside singing for what I felt was an unusually long amount of time. But also I read somewhere once that birds sing in the morning to let their mate know they made it through the night to say, I'm still here. Now, who knows how accurate that is?
Wow. Thank you, Madison. That was such a good reading of that. There's so much great imagery in that poem. What a great poem exploring the ideas of love and fate and mystery as as many of the poems in your collection do. I like that you say this collection doesn't come to a conclusion, but something more like a ceasefire
Madison Gill
@madg_ill · 3:33
And thus Casualties of Honey was born. So I'm going to share with you now the poem Casualties of Honey from my forthcoming book, Casualties of Honey. Enjoy. The bee drowning in a five gallon bucket of its own honey is how I'd like to go, I think, overwhelmed by sweetness embalmed in amber
We're trying to connect with new people and continue and deepen these conversations around topics that illuminate those connections between ourselves, between our mind and our heart, between ourselves and each other, between ourselves and our natural environment, and between ourselves and our built environments, like our communities and our economies and society. Looking forward to your comments and questions and we'll feel this myself or Madison. And again, I'm David Martin
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:41
I just wanted to drop in here. I'm not even done listening to this, but I'm enjoying it so much and honorably discharging myself from the war of living. What a beautiful line in your poem. Your work is stunning. Your conversation between the two of you elevates my understanding of the relationship between reader and writer and publisher. It's just beautiful. I'm going to continue listening now, but I wanted to pop this in
Madison Gill
@madg_ill · 1:43
Just speaking quickly on the relationship between writer and publisher, I definitely believe that it is important. This is my first ever book publication, so there's a lot of unknown and it's uncharted territory for me. But I have to say, truly, that my experience thus far working with David and Middle Creek Publishing has been so positive and so encouraging
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:06
And what I mean by that is sometimes I'll remember a line and my memory will blur where it's from, but the line will stick with me. And that is such a gift that I think writers give unknowingly, is that they turn a phrase so beautifully and it becomes someone else's, kind of like sometimes even a little of a lifeline to get perspective