Chapter 3
b'One day I remember having this conversation with Hadley, she was watching a documentary on Georgia O\\u2019Keefe and it gets to the scene where Georgia is painting the mural and I see her write something down in her notebook. This is what it said:\\n\\n\\n\\u201cShe paints like she\\u2019s trying to re-write history.\\u201d I love what she said when she spoke about heartbreak, when she was so heartbroken that she did not want to paint and when she found something and she would ask herself like she wouldn\\u2019t be sure who would want that. But she thought, you never know, someone else may find this animal skull to be as beautiful as I find it to be. Who knows what they might find.\\u201d \\n\\nWell, you do something similar, right? \\nYeah! I said. Well I think every artist does. I think all of us do. We just write or create what we find beautiful and hope \\u201c\\nDo I?\\u2019\\u201d She turns to me, looks at me. \\neyes wide and open.\\n\\u201cYou write like you\\u2019re trying to bring life to life,\\u201d she\\n\\n--- \\n\\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nakedpoetry/message\\nSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nakedpoetry/support'