Only Light
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-14T16:08:19+00:00Between the right and the wrong between the singer and her song between the left and the right let there be only light. Between the stories you tell, and the tales I speak, between the
May 2007 – An Email Update to Friends about My Traveling Love Status
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-10T16:29:27+00:00In further preparation of Valentine's Day, I share the following reflection from an email I sent to friends in May of 2007. I was returning to the United States after two months of living on
Dawes – “Take Me Out of the City”
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-02T06:41:57+00:00Happy first day of February. Are you ready for Valentines’s Day in two weeks? I am. My mom just called to tell me that she put her Valentine’s Day package for me in the mail
The Dream of Flowers from Another World
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-29T18:53:01+00:00One night I dreamt of a stunning panoramic view of rich desert landscape. I saw a beautiful girl on horseback racing through desert sands. She kept looking over her shoulder laughing at this clumsy, awkward-looking
The “I love you” Practice
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-09T19:23:12+00:0011/2/19 Journal Entry This morning before I was even fully awake, I was aware of anxiety waiting faithfully for me like a cat at the door of my waking consciousness. Although this doesn’t happen every
Poem from a time when I was 26
Ivett Almaguer2019-11-28T05:51:59+00:00On the bus today, I wrote a poem in my head, but having no writing implement to pin it down with I was forced to set it free to flutter over and pollinate the endless
The Dream of Being Remembered As I Am
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-29T18:54:56+00:00One night I dreamt I was a beautiful poet and revolutionary embroiled in a dead-end love affair and a doomed rebellion. Dream Written in the Present Tense My rebel lover isn't going to leave her
a love like this
Ivett Almaguer2019-11-13T19:27:31+00:00a love like this can carry me through a multiverse of darkness, playing connect-the-dots with every stray star system. I have crossed the infinite heart of the void countless times, in a single
The Promise of Rhododendrons
Ivett Almaguer2019-11-10T18:32:59+00:00Loneliness and anxiety have haunted me since my earliest childhood memories. I’ve done a lot of inner work to arrive at a point where I often feel free of the burden of these pernicious demons.
L’Harmonie Voltaique – “Nôglem Nôoma”
Ivett Almaguer2020-02-01T20:46:35+00:00I heard this song for the first time in October 2015 in the middle of a Soundcloud playlist I had stumbled upon. From the beginning, this song inspired a very powerful feeling inside of me