Everything Born Is Foreign / Exit Scenes in Three Parts
Navya C.
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In these two poems, I wanted to explore conception and the definition of a baby. My mother had a miscarriage a year before I was born, and if that child had been birthed, my life would've been different in every way; my grandparents might've led drastically different lives if they hadn't had so many children. In evolutionary standards, we are put on this Earth to reproduce, but through evolution of morals, standards of life, and personal vendettas, we contradict this continuously. Babies are another thing --- there is so much psychology surrounding them in their developmental stages, and how much adversity the birthers go through. Conceptually, babies mean a hundred things, from a term of endearment to a human life. I wanted to capture everything: looking at a dead child, an isolated child. I wanted to use my poetry to understand the adversity of childhood, and motherhood, and nurturing.
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I like to think the base of creativity is critical thinking, meaning every piece of art is purposeful. I like finding meaning in things without defining them to attempt to translate emotion and concepts into tangible things. Art is my divergence and expression, understanding my place in the world.
