In the Garden of Eden, Eve Learns to Disagree / The Cruelty of Dreaming
Lilly B.
-
Humanity has never been able to steer away from Eve, because she is the first example of what can go wrong. In a perfect Garden with perfect people and perfect animals, how does the story progress? Eve and the snake: a human destined to agree and a snake famous for doing the opposite. She dreamt of difference, but was forced to wake to a world that was crueler than what she imagined. In my second poem, the realm of dreaming is explored, as is the loss of it when you wake up. Themes like those are what I live off of. My best pieces are simply fast-passing thoughts. Those who choose to put it somewhere physical are writers, but even if it only lived in your brain for the same blip of time Eve lived in the Garden and dreams stayed in your head, it is worth the same.
-
Creativity is in my walls, my desktop, my backpack, my closet. It's entirely unable to stay static, so it spreads to paper, into word docs, thumbtacked into paint. To put it aside is not technically impossible, but why would I ever do that?
