Blog — Half Mystic

For years, I wanted to diverge from my heritage, because to do anything else would be to assume the debt of being loved.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestFebruary 7, 2019

Many of the truths within this book are about the impossible debt of love and the tremendous gift of lineage.

There is a dichotomy that exists in poetry that allows both intimacy and distance.

January’s song: the launch of Half Mystic Journal’s Issue VI: Interlude, wild, soft, ephemeral, fierce.

VI: Interlude | Uncomposed: "Lexicon"

G for Georgia, O for Oscar, T for Thomas, again O for Oscar. My mother spells out her maiden name on the phone.

Featuring Caitlyn Siehl's poems "By the Water", "To the Bone", and "Flower Boy", and Jonathan Meur's song "Cities & Seas".

If music has ever saved your life, in any way possible, please read this wonderful collection of poetry.

I hope my readers are able to embrace the awkward younger versions of themselves, and forgive those past selves.

You came so far & you still made it here, she says, & I am thinking of a migration of birds exhaling into feathers.

Enter: Sound / On Reusing Music

If someone asks me to imagine the word forget, I think of walking to the outer dorms on a rainy day.