Around three years ago on this blog, I wrote: “the longest writing. can be one line”, itself a line from poet Nayyirah Waheed, and containing multiple powerful single-line texts. This week Roland Harwood of WeAreLiminal shared this with me:
Connection is the feeling of landing in the present tense
Kae Tempest, from “On Connection”
I had never heard of Kae Tempest, a spoken word artist who, in 2020, published a book-length essay called “On Connection”, the review in The Guardian of which inishes with this flourish: “I drank On Connection down like a fresh glass of water.” That review draws me to the work of Kae Tempest, but at the same time, for now, that single line hit me like a thunderbolt of clarity.
Connection is the feeling of landing in the present tense