Hey Chloe–great blog.
Aaron Ivey does this thing called “artist night” at he and his wife Jamie’s place. They have a swank home. Artists get together and share their stuff; songwriters, poets, photographers, all creating and sharing in a constructive and encouraging environment.
Deep, honest, talented artists played their songs in a stripped-down, minimaliststyle. Austin Jones and Philip Edsel from Courrier, Jason Poe from Jets Under Fire, this guy named Nate who lives by Courrier, apparently, Devin M. Garza, Sr., Stephen Miller, and others (I just forgot their names) played. If you’re an Austin artist, make some way to get to the next artist night.
I shared this poem:
“Make Room”
Throw the emptiness in your arms
Out into that space we breathe;
Claim some lonely goodnight–
Whispered, Unanswered–
Was it for you?
Bring it in to live there
In the thinned air,
And a tired song,
Waning thin,
May rest in the vacant whisper’s home.
Is it for you?
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Philip Edsel helped me with the punctuation. He’s a great writer.
“Make Room” was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s first elegy from his Duino Elegies. It’s built it off his line: “Throw the emptiness in your arms out into that space we breathe.” It was written to think through movement and energy; when something dies, its energy goes somewhere else and another something is born. It’s cyclical. Actually, it’s the Circle of Life. The song from Lion King describes it better than I do, I just thought I’d add a little something to the metaphysical muddle of modern thought.
