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Renewal

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September 18, 2024
Landscape With Charon Crossing The Styx, Joachim Patinir, 1520-1524

Born in 2003, Teodora Botezatu is a young writer living…

deep into the stillness, a rustle of contours – a draught of sizzling ambiguity – velvet blue, a shifting perspective there goes the shapeless heft our shoulders bear, from one memory to another, deeply carved into the steps of our rootless breaths for there are no crossroads, no surrender – just a songbird’s trill, perched upon the brow of nightfall. it is often said that dreams are recollections of reality, scattered across the struggle between authority and madness – yet, they are flickers of that which goes beyond the skin, beyond the whirl of thoughts that fuse and drift apart at the drop of a minute’s uprooted numbness, blurring the lines between impertinence and reassessment. overturning the rational, undermining corporeality – dreams reside on the outskirts of the conscious, murky and tangled like the river of Styx – and to be able to look beyond them, you must let go of any presumptive apathy and never look back – people, buildings, bridges of words collapsing under the paralysing fear of loss – all melting now into one another, for there are no crossroads, no surrender, just the old beat of the heart as it regains its shape, a songbird’s flight over the valleys of bountiful light.
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Born in 2003, Teodora Botezatu is a young writer living in Romania. She is currently a student. A free-spirited learner, she enjoys nitpicking on the patterns which reside at the base of humanity’s relationship with language, particularly the intricacies of subversion. When not busy with exams or running from one class to another, she can be found indulging in art history and literature, with just the right amount of tea to spice things up.

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