I Am a Wising Supernova | Danielle Bennett
Danielle Bennett is a professional left and right-brainer–she’s a freelance artist and works in communications at an education non-profit in Los Angeles. She deeply believes in the power of poetry as a cathartic tool and means of compelling storytelling. Danielle is an east coast native, former high school teacher, and breakfast lover. One day, she hopes to complete a New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle without any help.
The older I get
the more I see
nuance over
complexity
My mother is a
bubbling bath of
warm & bitter love
My father is a
chased away absence
I still sniff out
My love is a
a singed laughter
& recovering delight
I am a
wising supernova still attached
to a string of fool’s choices
I cannot edit or
filter my past,
the office,
this country,
all the noise I’d
like to unplug—
none of it a tumor to remove,
but rather
a knot I elbow into
each time I practice
radically accepting
& allowing & letting
go into an easy tide
The older I get
I know all the bother
is not “them.”
I am
exactly how
I am seeing.
-Danielle Bennett