Sarah Audsley
Amaryllis
Artist Statement: Talking & Listening to Plants
Writing is essential to my internal wiring. I write for my life, to exist as an invented self, to process experience, for the poem to be an experience. Writing is also how I choose to enact self-determination. Choosing a place is a way of belonging. By connecting to the natural world, and the place I've chosen, I find a renewed sense of belonging. In this case, the potted amaryllis on my windowsill is featured in contrast to the wintery landscape outside, and offers a mirror for the poet-speaker's inner psychological musings.
Photo credit: Carolyn Kehler
Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. She is the Writing Program Director at Vermont Studio Center.