New Writing and Poetry

Barricades Down

Mariette — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:25:15 +0000

Last night the barricades came down from Zuccotti Park due to some good work by the ACLU and core activists. While I wandered out of some meetings at Charlotte’s Place, I happened upon the first barricades coming down. It was kind of magical to be there, before the word got out, before anyone really knew [...]

The Pheonix Moment

Mariette — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:12:00 +0000

A little over a year ago, the Phoenix myth came to live with me. I saw her in Buddhist texts and in poems on tea. In the wings of the Phoenix myth, across cultures, was a sense of depth: the Phoenix was calling me to really accept life’s need to end and renew itself. In [...]

Zoocotti in December

Mariette — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:53:56 +0000

I walked up the stairs this morning, eating a toasted everything bagel. I sat down by the Eastern barricades. Immediately, I was offered money. “Hey, we’ve got free money in a box.” I smiled, said no thanks and then we, the guy and the serene girl to his right, we began to talk. In this [...]

Occupational Myth

Mariette — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:37:37 +0000

Last night I wandered into Liberty Square a little dazed from Thanksgiving and a spate of enjoyable climate change days. Holiday lights and yellow leaves moved in the gentle, spring-like breezes while cops and Zuccotti sentries made phone calls and told jokes amongst themselves. All is much calmer since the eviction. In some ways it [...]

Long Live Music

Mariette — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:21:28 +0000

I’m excited to announce that I’ve got a new 12 Questions contribution, and it features some Brooklyn indie rockers, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly. It’s pretty exciting for me to get into some pop now and again, since at one point in my life I lived and breathed that world. Before I gave myself to making [...]

Liberty Street Sound Recording

Mariette — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:18:54 +0000

It’s the sound that drew me in. While armies of police, both corporate and public stood amongst lights. And alongside them, their colleagues, the people. There was a sense that the story was not over, but boy the park was a different scene. First there was the death of eviction. Then came the flame of [...]