Braving the Waves: Stuffed Silence

Resolvve

English - November 13, 2023 15:00 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MB
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Episode Notes

We bring you another episode of Braving the Waves, hosted by Mikaela Brewer, today.

This week’s poem excavates the complicated nature of receiving and replying to messages from someone who knows we're struggling and is lovingly checking in on us. It unpacks the nooks and crannies of this dynamic—such as the tension between gratitude and somatic reactions—and why responding is not as simple as it seems.

Here is a snippet of Stuffed Silence:

I’m impotent. Can’t generate letters, words, sentences, paragraphs,
but a bare-boned poem.
Anxiety splashes and churns acid up the walls of my stomach
reading your worry.
Overwhelm casts cross, sweeping shadows against uncapacious chest walls
writing a response.
Panic squeezes breath & blood from my heartbeat—a bean crushed by knife face
— tapping send.

Listen in to this week's episode to hear the rest of Stuffed Silence! If you’d like to share your moment or memory on the podcast, please head to tinyurl.com/bravingthewaves.

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