Undoing
Ariel Z.
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Undoing is a series of poems that seek to trace back one’s origins and return belonging to something greater. The first poem is the narrator’s escape while relaying her half-real, half-imaginary encounters. The narrator distances herself using third person, but the reason for her running away is the same as mine, is the same as my grandmother’s and the line of immigrant daughters in my family. The second is a return to the room where I was born. Seeing my mother years younger compared to the mother I know now, I notice the physical evidence of the life she carried and the irreversibility of birth. Revisiting this room, it is also here where I realize we will both die. The last is a returning of the self into nature. The poem is both a singularity and eternity in space. We are the sunlight through the leaves; we always will be.
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To me, creativity means telling stories in ways that are unconventional or surprising. In my own writing, creativity shows up in the form of poetry and metaphor. It becomes a lens I can see the world through.