“What happens when a poet’s brain goes off-road?”

In this episode of the Wingless Dreamer Podcast, Ruchi sits down with the phenomenal Vanessa Watters — the writer who turns metaphors into emotional earthquakes and everyday moments into cinematic poetry.From blackberry memories to brain-playlists, from witchcraft-level intuition to poems that ambush you in grocery aisles, Vanessa unlocks the glorious, messy, magical chaos of the human mind.If you’ve ever wondered why unfinished poems haunt you, why ideas strike only in the shower, or which poem should be humanity’s “mental survival ID” — this episode is your new obsession.Grab your chai, coffee, or straight chaos — and dive in.

✨ Blackberry Jam and Human Truth about Poetry ✨

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Read Vanessa's full poem, Blackberry Jam here:

BLACKBERRY JAM

First, we would load up the car, with salty
sunflower seeds in our pockets and thermos’
in hand, and when we took to the lot
we used buckets that we filled with blackberries
bursting in the August sun. We took them home,
and sat purple mouthed with fingers
bramble-worn from the pricking, as grandma
cooked them with sugar in a big pot, and the next
morning it was my job to help get the biscuits done.
Then we’d open a jar and pry the wax from the top,
and sometimes chew it up like gum, but only after
we got to the good stuff at the bottom.

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