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Kristin Wong's avatar

This is so beautiful. It was a pleasure to get lost in your memories, Alex!

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Poetry Culture's avatar

Thank you so much Kristin! That means a lot. I’d love to read a post with your memories too, you have such a rich life and a beautiful way with words!

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Loki Excelsior Smith's avatar

Well done. Beautiful prose. Reminds me of a writing exercise I did a few days back. Take a photograph or recall when in your memory and start it off with “in this one you are… “

It seems simple, but it’s very effective…

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Poetry Culture's avatar

Thank you so much, that means a lot. What did you find you wrote about when you did that exercise? what memories did you uncover which you had forgotten?

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Loki Excelsior Smith's avatar

Well, it’s not my first time with the exercise. I’ve been working on an extended chapter to a book, called our life in pictures, and so this has become kind of a meditative exercise to sync me back into writing. I’m going to post an excerpt from the latest one along with some other writing exercises in my Substack soon. I’ll try to remember to let you know when I do.

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