Gate(Less) as it was spelled in the beginning — started as a poetry blog — quickly mutating into an ‘experience’
And what an experience it’s been— so far — with highs and lows — I wonder sometimes — how people who have recommended gate(less) feel when someone joins our cohort — and then — blames them for instigating a non-linear process
The nonlinearity is an issue — for many ex-members of the cult — where they expect it in poetry — they seem to have a hard time grabbing thoughts that spiral around and come from other directions — rather than through our front-facing predator eyes
Hard to admit we were born with 8 eyes
Once I found a Reichian therapist who exclusively did cranial saclar therapy — I wanted to experience Reichian therapy but he refused — saying it was a losing proposition for him — after Reichian work people never came back — finally — after 50 sessions I convinced him — it was the most blissful — wonderful breath work possible — I yelled at one point — How can breathing be legal? I never went back after that
Funny how we hold on — isn’t it? So — I’m putting poems behind a paywall — not as a means of getting y’all to contribute to my eventual dissolution (although if you wanna subscribe and pay — I won’t say no) but rather as a means to keep my poetics mechanisms in parallel play and to have plausible deniability when submitting poems for publication
Poems behind a paywall & other gate(less) side quests