Haywire 11 Spring 2018

HAYWIRE Issue 11 Spring 2018
Was zur Poesie?
With Marie Bohl, 11a
HAYWIRE: What about poetry made you want to
continue writing it?
Marie: It was a nice feeling, because I had a lot of
words that would just fit together and pop into my
head when I was just zoning out thinking. Putting
them to paper then always seemed so simple, almost
effortless, so it made me feel good.
A Jaded Girl
by Marie Bohl, 11a
I don't need to be this tired
I don't need to be this tame
But a jade dragon once told me
I'd have it all to blame
Because
Lovers burn in fires
And I don't want to be insane
I don't want to be a lover
And I don't want to live in flames
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HAYWIRE: Do you have a creative process?
Marie: I have a notebook that I have all my poems
in. I often look at my poems and there is a sort of
distance there, because it feels like I don’t really
remember writing them down or where the ideas
came from. A lot of ideas come when I’m riding on
my bike, because I ride everywhere with my bike.
I just need a environment where I can zone out and
just be in my head. Then I’ll subconsciously put
words together and they’ll be perfect. When I get
home I’ll just have the first few sentences stuck in
my head over and over again, I’ll write them down
and continue the poem, and then I’ll go over the
poem a couple times for about an hour, reading it
out loud, fixing things, choosing between one or
two words, adding or taking away parts. I always
reread my poems too. I’ll read ones I wrote about
four years ago and edit them. Some of the poems in
previous Haywire editions are not the most current
versions of the poems.
HAYWIRE: How much do the poems end up changing?
Marie: I never do anything too extreme. Often just
one word here or there when I’m bored. Sometimes
I’ll make a new poem out of an old poem. I’ll take
one line or one paragraph and make something new
out of it.
HAYWIRE: Which other poets inspire you?
Marie: The biggest one is Pablo Neruda, who writes
mostly in Spanish. I’ll read it in books with English
on one side and the original text on the other. He is
just honestly in my opinion the best poet who has
ever lived. He writes about the most simple things,
Instead you should've lied to me
And left me on my own
And gone and gone back home to be
A dragon master's sun
The pagodas rest on hills
And I don't rest at all
My spirit flees to mountaintops
Of Mist and Clouds and Falls
And I miss being angry
I miss burning down the tame
I miss being a dragon
And I miss being insane
But all these memories do
is turn to mist and clouds
on mountaintops
waiting to be free
to fall and fall
back home to me
Surrounded by the bronze walls of palaces
With the stones all crumbling in
And words carved into calluses
and just into my skin
'I have it all to blame'
he wrote a two or three page poem about an onion
and made it seem like the most interesting thing in
the world. He just brings a certain life into the simple
things that we don’t always think about, brings
beauty into it. Seeing beauty in everything is the
key to poetry. I tried to copy his style of poetry for a
while, but those never turned out very good. I try to
take inspiration from it, not copy it, because I cannot
write in his style, it’s just different than mine.