Where seeing becomes sensing becomes saying. Forever becoming. Forever unfinished.
On Saying

To say something is to lose it a little. And to find it, differently. Every act of saying leaves something behind — the image loses some of its silence, the feeling loses some of its wildness. On Saying lives inside that loss — and finds it generative. What language cannot hold, it gestures toward. What it cannot name, it circles. The closest we can get is also, always, enough.

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On-Seeing — the Substack
Every Saturday morning, a poem arrives — devotional, witness-bearing, mythopoetic, or simply what the week has left behind. This is the metronome — the beating heart of my writing practice. This is the primary rhythm of On-Seeing, held without interruption. Alongside it, in their own time and on their own terms, come longer forms — lyric essays, mythopoetic reflections, political witness pieces — and occasional guest voices from the community. A growing archive, freely available to all. Forever free. Forever unfinished.
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Form
guest voice lyric essay poem sermon
Theme
alchemy ancestral blessing ecology Goddess impermanence lament mother mythos river threshold
The forms of saying
  • The poem — weekly, primary, ritual
  • The lyric essay — longer, essayistic, unhurried
  • The sermon — spoken and written, liturgical
  • The paradoxical blessing
  • The ekphrastic poem — written in response to an image
  • The mythopoetic reflection — figures from story and myth
  • The political witness
  • The guest voice — occasional, curated, community
  • The liturgy and the prayer
Guest voices
It is with great excitement that I am introducing a new element on this Substack. Starting with this guest post, I will occasionally share poems and other creative writing from my beloved community. David Didio, whose gorgeous poem opens this portal is a dear friend and colleague at The Thread Interfaith Seminary. I am honored to have him step with me across this threshold. ~Sushmita (On-Seeing)
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