aaduna in exile 2021-2022 - Luisa Aparisi-França

Clarity

While vernacular research may be an area more germane to idiosyncratic literary researchers, it is intriguing that there are more than thirty-seven (37) various uses of the simple word, clarity. Of course, the average person understands the multiplicity of this word’s meaning, intended or suggestive, in a variety of everyday settings and human interactions. Interestingly, this word carries a powerful emotional understanding when one reflects on her/his personal maturity and social development within the complexities of human understanding of difference. And it is withing the diverse arena of personal clarity that routinely manifests a life changing decision or direction. 

aaduna has always sought to encompass its literary and visual art direction in the ever-changing cloak of clarity. And we recognize at best, clarity is a very personal and profound understanding of individual psyche and life direction. While you will have to wait to read the inferences that are being made in this statement via the forthcoming winter 2021-22 issue, there is a person who is exemplary in manifesting clarity.

 

Luisa Aparisi-França (photo provided)

Luisa Aparisi-França resides in Florida. As a third culture kid, and someone who, for the most part, slides in and out of confines, Luisa seeks to use language as a way of bridging divides. Her poems explore spaces we constantly create with each decision and interaction. 

Aparisi-França and will bring their works to the next aaduna issue. Here is a snapshot of their words from “Light Filtering Through the Golden Banana Leaves.”

 

I often push myself past the point of breaking

surging through surf

always needing to be called back from the brink.

 

Tell me that it’s ok to stop straining.

 

Swimming is such hungry work.

 

When I don’t hold the reins in my hands

I feel like a failure.

 

I think of every place where I ever felt low

wandering aimlessly through a plaza

 

trapped in the bathroom at Churchill’s

or stuck in my hometown

 

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Share aaduna’s moment of clarity.

 

The winter 2021-22 issue will surface in the next few weeks if not before. Most of us welcome pleasant surprises!!! Clarity.

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