poetic correspondence
write to me, and I'll answer you with a poem
There are questions that follow us around for weeks, months, sometimes years, without our ever finding quite the right person to ask them. There are situations that don’t call for a diagnosis, only for a few words to sit alongside them. And there are people who simply trust that whatever arrives at the right moment, a line, a phrase, a title, will turn out to be exactly what they needed to hear.
Correspondence is for all of that.
what is it?
Write to me (in a free 30-minute call, or a short form) about where you are right now: the question you keep circling back to, the situation that’s weighing on you, the uncertainty you haven’t quite found words for yet. It doesn’t need to be serious. It doesn’t need to be anything in particular, really, beyond some part of you that’s asking to be heard.
From there, I write back. Most often with a poem. Sometimes with an essay. Occasionally, with the title of a book I know needs to find its way to you. Each reply is written for you specifically, for this particular moment of yours, and no one else’s.
a balm
A balm, in its oldest sense, is resin, the substance a tree produces to seal its own wound, to protect itself from air, from weather, from anything that might get in. It doesn’t heal from the outside; it seals from within, using what the tree already had.
That’s what I want to send you. Not a prescription, not a remedy handed down from outside, but something applied over what’s already there, something that protects, that eases the friction, that offers a little relief. And, above all, something that comforts: not because it resolves what you’re carrying, but because it keeps you company in it for a while.
a seed
But a poem doesn’t only protect, it’s also planted. What you receive isn’t meant to be read once and set aside. It’s meant to stay with you, so that you come back to it in a month, or a year, and find something different than you did the first time. Like any seed, it doesn’t bear fruit the moment it’s given, it needs its own time, its own season, its own roots.
Correspondence doesn’t offer you a cure. It offers you something to heal, and something to grow.
how to begin
A few notes: The 30-minute call is free and optional; it is neither a sales call nor a consultation to discuss potential future collaboration. It is simply a chance for us to get to know each other and talk about what is currently on your mind, after which you will receive your “balm/seed” poem.
Following the call, or once I have confirmed receipt of your form, it will take up to one week for me to get back to you with your poem.