Vincent and I - a Timeline of a Lifetime of Light on Light and Lightness
From an early age, Vincent Van Goghian's exuberant yellows and explosive blues inspired me to write as he painted so very tenderly.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Feb 16, 202212 min read
"The Other Me"-- Clearing the Smoke Blurring Faced-Up Mirrors: See and Thus, Be Seen
I've been obsessed with doppelgängers, alter egos, liminal experiences, otherness. Giga Agladze's The Other Me embodies it all
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Nov 1, 20204 min read
MAP - The Making of Liam Whelan's Irish Lullaby. A Cartography of a Heritage.
Liam remembered the very first time that his Máthair Chríona sang the lullaby for him when he was a child, and an old ache squeezed his gut.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Feb 14, 202013 min read
A Blue Sky Watched Over Us From Sunrise to Sunset [and en las noches in-between]
After my first abortion at eighteen, I fretted as to whether I'd be able to bear a child. So, I consulted a palm reader. She said, "Seven."
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Oct 18, 20199 min read
The Making of "Realization": Merging Time, Place & Being Towards Resilience
Today, I find inspiration in the shape of a scar. I imagine that polka dots of blood can be read like musical notes spilling sounds.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Sep 21, 20196 min read
A Place-Based Poem about Weather Report
Gale warning forecast by Mr. Jaco Pastorius--he is whirlpooling his rapid tornado, ripping the frets into splits and chunks of music.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Sep 17, 201910 min read
Tracing Lines Between Stars: A Shamanistic Happenstance with Dr. David S. Whitley
Awareness opens our eyes to see, to gain access, and once we cross the threshold, we reach agency. And that is too, what brings awe.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 29, 20195 min read
Translating the Ineffable from the Liminalities of Otherness
Translation occurs in the immediacy of my bilingual mind. I'm a poet translating poetry, as poetry is written in its cathartic becoming.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20193 min read
“Ekphrasis of Cassandra’s Vow of Love.”
I had thought that uncertainty and despair were the gradients of my life before I’d known about this flower growing inside me.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20195 min read
“Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”
She wore pink stilettos. Her steps towards the stage were sensual, following the cry of mating, the howling of Beck’s guitar.
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