I Thought I Had Forgotten

Last month, I attended my first WriteMiami workshop.

Something about writing in community, surrounded by people I had not known before, invited me to slow down and pay attention. The experience opened space for listening without preparing a response, for being with others without trying to help, and for letting stillness feel full rather than empty.

What emerged was “I Thought I Had Forgotten,” a poem about the parts of ourselves that can become buried beneath noise, urgency, and the instinct to always be useful.

After the first few Dust & Clay albums, I had drawn on much of the poetry I had written over the previous twenty years, so I welcomed the opportunity to create something new. I transformed the poem into the latest poetronica track, giving its pauses, questions, and quiet realizations another way to be felt.

Perhaps I had not forgotten after all. Perhaps I only needed to become still enough to remember.