Secrets

Kate Fox is a performance poet, which means that she does something very personal, and she does it very publicly. She keeps a secret blog, and wrote in it:

It was interesting to chat to shewhomust about blogs after. She has a LiveJournal one, which as she said is sort of a secret blog, since it's anonymous. But it has a community element because people comment across blogs of similar interests. It made me think that actually shewhomust's blog really is secret because it's under a pseudonym and something that she's set up to explore her thoughts and share them with others, not really to share her private self. Mine is hidden in the open and tends to go "look at me, look at me, I'm secret!" and we're back to the public/private opposition again that writers negotiate so ambivalently.

Another way of summing up that opposition might be to say that Kate is a poet, and I'm not.

In the same conversation, I asked Kate to allow me to publish one of her poems here; Kate's day job is at a local radio station, and I particularly liked a poem which gives away a few trade secrets of its own.
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