Blog — Half Mystic

Half Mystic began as a grand experiment in championing work that lives between literature & song, hope & fight, horizon & sea.

Featuring Lyd Havens’ poems “Unruly” and “206 days later”, and Marla Bendini’s song “Blossom”.

Featuring Ben Togut’s poems “Saudade: Autumn”, “Elegy”, and “Coercion Aubade”, and Bennett Bay’s song “Gone”.

Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.

It’s a fool who believes she can drink down the sea, sing it serene and quiet. The storm screams us all apart eventually.

Is the sforzando the registration or the dread?

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

I think we as humans experience a collective aching to know ourselves, and psychics & therapists each illuminate different access points.

Please join us at Half Mystic’s latest gathering this coming Saturday, April 18, 2020, at 9 P.M. EST.

& now, spinning in the center of pandemic, what is celebration in an era of loss? Of isolation? She said resilience. I heard re-silence.