Kimberly Blaeser

Like he's on the other side and it'll never be the same place again or vision once he's been through that experience.

So I love the suggestion to use that as a metaphor.

Absolutely.

I'd be delighted.

And I just would say to preface this is that for me, I thought I was writing a series of poems, but I realized this is actually an aesthetic.

It's a way of engaging with the world and the way of engaging with poetry itself.

And so now I understand it more as that.

And for me, it comes out of two different traditions.

One of them is the Anishinaabe dream song tradition.

And one of them is also haiku.

And there are a lot of similarities between what I'm attempting in these poems and that, especially haiku in the Zen tradition.

The Way We Love Something Small

Inky leaf shadows on snow, each animal track a hollow, trace of bird feet, double oval of deer, the glyphs we make, the ones we follow.

Well, poetry is also an investigation.

It's a search.

And it's for that idea of

that experience, that detail that we don't know.

And we kind of want to put ourselves against that and see what happens.

You know, like we keep, there is no end to it in the same way that there is no end to the research of a scientist, right?

And I think it's, in my mind, it's to get to know that being or reality.