my pen name is cassie.
i am a poet, writer, graphic designer
and child play therapist in training.
i live in the united kingdom.
I am a somatic, sensory first poet. I tend to spend my life wrapped in analysis and rumination, often ignoring the sensations my body tells me. My process is often thought first, feeling second. In this exhaustion, words are a way for me to get back to my body. I write somatically before I write from my head. Translating my sensations in the only way I know how - through words - stops me from hiding from myself. Recurrent themes of my poems encircle textures, tastes, pressures and weights. It is only with post-reflection that I tend to gain further clarity - less so through ruminative analysis, but through the permission to feel.
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