KATHRYN SOUTHWORTH

WHY I WRITE: Kathryn Southworth

Why I write
 
My mother had a way of finding things
dropped, discarded, somehow lost
or disregarded –
necklaces in the street, sometimes, or rings.
 
I call it rescuing,
recognising, making radiant,
giving wings,
 
a warming into life, an issuing forth,
a birthing, realising when
to let go
 
when it truly lives,
the flow leading to somewhere else
you didn’t know
before
 
be it a place, a person, you yourself,
the face that meets you
every now and then
 
when you pick up a pen.
 
Kathryn Southworth's pamphlet No Man's Land was published by Dempsey & Windle in 2020, and she collaborated with Belinda Singleton on Wavelengths in 2019.