Phoebe Wagner
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Phoebe Wagner
#085: Routines are actually rituals of devotion to yourself
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we treat internal notes like embarrassing drafts instead of small maps. start saving one line to read later. it helps.
why everything feels temporary (and what to do about it)
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I wake up and stare for a bit, make my bed, make a cup of tea, egg, toast, watch this morning with mum
In the evening I have a cigarette before I go to bed— I get changed, take all my jewellery off and read till I’m drifting off. I move my pillow so it’s at my chest and I have my cuddly toy under my nose.
I always used to post poems on twitter when I published them, but literary twitter is pretty … dead these days, and I don’t know why but I get more shy when it comes to ig. Trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I’m throwing new work against the walls. This piece was published in @southernindianareview & then it was... See more
instagram.comI wasn’t feeling especially enthusiastic about writing—but, once I saw his enthusiasm, mine came back, to the extent that I talked nonstop for 10 minutes.
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan