This is a poem written and read by writer Heather Angelika Dooley. This is a piece about first, young love where the two lovers tried to come back and resurrect their love for each other years later when real life had unfolded. It did not turn out to be as easy as they expected after a short journey of reliving their past, but this writing work tells the story of how it felt so in the moment, and then the hindsight and reflection of how it felt later. It is about two past ginormous loves reuniting in remembrance of when life was easier, but it did not stay easy and this is what was written as an afterthought of what it could have been if it had actually been that, but it wasn't after twelve years that were more real than the three days they recalled being sixteen again. 

Thoughts, Reflections, and Musings by Poet Heather Angelika Dooley

This is a poem written and read by writer Heather Angelika Dooley. It is a piece about a woman who sits out on her patio writing out her thoughts about what it looks like to feel like a mermaid lost at sea, imaging her life as a oceanic romantic, while feeling like a misunderstood siren by the sailors who, actually, find her first and promise her things that they cannot carry out on land. She is searching for her footing when she believes that she should have never tried to have lured them in or had been asked to accept them as as they are. Each mariner fell in love with her as a mermaid, but then could not understand how deep she could swim without doubting her breath for life, while she was feeling underwater in their above life of mediocrity, and unbalanced on fins that never turned to legs for them.

Thoughts, Reflections, and Musings by Poet Heather Angelika Dooley

Poet, Heather Angelika Dooley, reads her original work about a woman recognizing that she can find simple pleasure in common practices while enjoying the subtle loveliness in the world around her, noticing that you cannot change people as they organically are, and accepting it - that day - as it all is, even if it is restlessness and uncertainty that got her there. 

Thoughts, Reflections, and Musings by Poet Heather Angelika Dooley