sandee.woo

poet • pleiades poetry cofounder • fresh to berlin's writing + performance scene • literary linguistics MA • trauma + cognitive poetics • 🏳️‍🌈 • she/her

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

thrilled to have been asked to collab & write this reportage for #numeromag, giving a #recap of the most recent #berlinfashionweek

berlin fashion is at a truly special place ✨

https://t.co/aq82JOgFkh

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: toes drilled in wavy heat. washing clothes again. registered, as if by magic. picked tunes suitable for a womb. triggered by violence & tearful mc—shook. a chunk of glass to create on. shared vegan pâté & stalls—so surprised, 1st time was 9: they love it.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: bathroom stall wish grant: g'dbye sci method man. i struggled—lost wheels—left it squint. a panic demand for ironed seats. a dinner party, fires & stampede. from yin stretch to techno spin near death, i got us lights & stamps; we stomped across the city.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: play pretend, wined grownup—gulf btwn old friends. new ones see seeds. bright light, my monied skull. floor life. final frantic pack—insomniac. 4 floors to fill the barest space i've known. then so inside me. teal tan tones, a bed i chose. a day of dance.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: denied, but not for long. given a room, needing more— name on a door. lush rawness as gift; giving punk as another. an unasked fast food fringe. measuring unend + keys to finally keep. putting pictures up, no me. wearing masks as an act of love. reunited.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: my hope a ghost, my oven used—awoken to impossible perfection & strange day celebration. i was a desirous pit w/ missed sunset steps—left to ache in simultaneousness. a home felt, a twin returned, my 1st do hosting—dancing w/ another ghost deep in my skin

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: i walked a stranger's pet & left. i found my blood to be unmatched & my mouth to near refuse words new. i read of riots past, too thin skin. unknown whites, dinner medicine, fake aperol day & forfeited wins. crystal palm—i refused, succumbed, melted open

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: dressed for a lie, loved pines pre the only pie i'll have. hillbound, bookended summer sun, a date w/ a machine ride. ill, torn hair gone fabulous, train to new ancient sights. professor. masterpieces. wine jugs—communal. new sig scent. twice breast touch

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: daytime in yr favorite place; her sanded toes dumped on metal bed—she loves it here! thrift & collect. pre a meeting of beginnings—tell all u r away; yr so adult & unemployed. now in roma —crushing w/ 1 reservation. steps & courses. 1 silver eye to see.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: i refused to remove my muumuu—despite mother's day advice. i subbed poems. jazz szn ended. my photo promise, i parsed-out on post-it. i dreamt—pink dim sum. bones on stage & an old bestie here: one planned day. a lake party that lapped right up our night.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: i planned a solo escape then packed light to play grown up—sunset roof catch up, a dawn train from the sun. a new ursula carved way through my colored heart. gallery hops, white asparagus, novel open & uncaring nationalist. a first. a return to be miley.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: plans bled into mattress—no may day for me. made it alive to 'death drive-in,' blind date, doughnuts, prescribing crystals & buying bunk. p.m. printing—i became a brand new brand. panel sat & super scared, i said it off & husky. here, you may need a poet.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

v grateful i was invited to attend #interzum in cologne 🛋️

full disclosure: i spent a load of time in the enchanting little city immersed in art & food more than furniture 🖼️

now excited to see what these freshly sought connections & inspirations will evolve into/involve✨

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

上上 week #reflect: i didn't go—chose brunch & art alone, lost my voice right in time for ENT. i read again—quiet!—i prepped a thing, i wrote w/ queer poets, like me. a friend returned—loud!—a housewarming, my new workshop, fundraising; from dice rolls to wrist: a glyph chose me.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: i can show her how to dance a day, sleep in a large soft square; she reminded me of butter, alt ways of washing up. work in bed, demand injections, plan a soon trip to write off, try to date—this is all past tense. i read on stage & sun danced another day

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

@JennyMitchellGo @Kyarmot https://t.co/YFeTkBKQ5F

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

@JennyMitchellGo @Kyarmot this reminds me of the Yale Review essay Douglas Kearney wrote a while back...exploring how poetry readings could affect the text in relation to reader interaction/expectations

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

super excited to be a panelist for this poetry book launch saturday eve 📖✨

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

late 上上 week #reflect: confusion, errands—i teatimed for a panel, copywrote for 1st hearts, learnt, printed, + in sun rehearsed: success. not being sugar, we went wet shopping secondhand + snagged a coveted tapas table res. a bestie bb in a disco flat. i won 20yrs to taunt her.

[sandee.woo @WooSandee]

last night's @Bi_Poets workshop by Rick Dove was superb // v excited to spend more time on all the poem-seeds he supplied us with & polish up a draft or so in time for submission to the bi+ series anthology a la @fourteenpoems 🦄✨✏️

ty ty ty, @helen_bowell + @multistable 💫