From dreamnation.io
“What attracted you to the craft of writing above other things?”
“I always say ‘writing got into me’. I was not the one that initiated that relationship. I was about ten and as soon as my teacher explained what poetry was I was like ‘I do that’. I had never done that before but in my heart it just resonated as the way I’ve been meaning to and feel most comfortable communicating, so I just started writing poems from then on.”
Ultimately, the masks we wear are the parts of our body. Skeleton’s are masks that hide our immortality, even to the one wearing the mask. Alysia Nicole Harris has found those masks and tells us about them in her poem, “Death Poem.” She invites us to look at the nakedness beneath our clothes, skin and bones.
